Human Rights

Haiti’s severely overcrowded prisons became a focus of acute humanitarian concern in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread through detention

International human rights organizations renewed their condemnation of conditions in Haiti’s prison system in 2019, describing facilities that were severely

The demand for accountability in the PetroCaribe scandal pointed a spotlight in 2019 at Haiti’s deeply troubled judicial system, which

The restavek system — in which poor rural families send their children to live with more affluent urban households in

Inside Haiti’s overcrowded prisons in 2019, a quiet humanitarian crisis played out daily, largely invisible to the public demonstrations and

Haiti’s LGBTQ+ community, which has long faced discrimination and periodic violence in a socially conservative society, found its situation worsening

Haiti has one of the highest concentrations of orphanages per capita in the world, a fact that child protection experts

Haitian journalists covering the protest movement and political crisis of 2019 faced a gauntlet of threats, physical attacks, equipment seizures,