1. Inter-American Commission Grants Protection to IDP Camp Facing Eviction
(Matching tags: human rights, forced evictions, ijdh, idps, amnesty, housing)

Earlier this week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures in favor of the 567 families that have been under constant threat of eviction in the Grace Village ...

2. U.N. Agency Cites “Grave Concern” Following Recent Arsons and Forced Evictions at IDP Camps
(Matching tags: evictions, camps, idps)

... recent incidents of forced evictions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Port-au-Prince.” The OCHA release follows a visit to the Acra 2 IDP camp in Port-au-Prince which “followed evictions ...

3. From Camp to Kanaan to One of Haiti’s First Sewage Treatment Plants
(Matching tags: shelter, reconstruction, sanitation, displacement, idps, cholera, public sector, dinepa)

Port-au-Prince - It “shook the house, like this” he says, violently rocking back and forth, acting it out. He yelled to his wife to get out, grabbed the children and went to the street. “Ten minutes later ...

4. In Commemorating Earthquake, Very Different Approaches
(Matching tags: haitian government, crs, idps, housing, clinton, Asanble Vwazen Solino)

Port-au-Prince - Some 24 hours before making an appearance in Hollywood at the Golden Globes, former President Bill Clinton was in Haiti on January 12, commemorating the three year mark since the Haiti ...

5. Three Years Later: A Round-up of News and Commentary
(Matching tags: aid distribution, elections, evictions, camps, idps, cholera, housing, GBV)

An editorial in the Christian Science Monitor today begins: The third anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010, has not drawn much attention. This is despite the fact that 1 out ...

6. Haiti by the Numbers, Three Years Later
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, shelter, ocha, imf, garment factories, idps, cholera, housing)

En français Number of people killed in the earthquake in 2010: over 217,300 Number of people killed by cholera epidemic caused by U.N. troops since October 19, 2010: over 7,912 [i] Number of ...

7. Red Cross Progress Report Raises Some Questions
(Matching tags: shelter, sanitation, red cross, idps, health, housing)

The American Red Cross has issued a new progress report on its work in Haiti since the earthquake, describing how it has used the $486 million USD that it has raised. The report, while brief, and still ...

8. On Human Rights Day, Forced Evictions Underscore How Hundreds of Thousands in Haiti Are Denied Their Right to Decent Housing
(Matching tags: human rights, forced evictions, idps, housing)

... displaced persons (IDPs) who remain in camps live in extreme poverty, with 60 percent reporting that they ate one meal or fewer per day. The Under Tents statement also notes the failings of the Haitian ...

9. New Report Finds Economic Insecurity Increasingly Puts Haitian Girls at Risk of Violence
(Matching tags: idps, GBV, women)

A new report [PDF] on gender-based violence (GBV) in Haiti “suggests that adolescent girls are  disproportionately suffering social and violent aftershocks of the earthquake,” including “unwanted and early ...

10. Cholera as a Human Rights Issue
(Matching tags: haitian national police, minustah, prisons, ijdh, idps, cholera, duvalier)

... for the cholera epidemic, the report focuses on the conditions faced by IDPs, whom it describes as having been “Abandoned and left to fend for themselves,” lacking adequate housing and sanitation, safe ...