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Security & Strategic Review - August 2017 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Haiti: Prison concerns back to the fore

President Jovenel Moïse is facing renewed pressure to address the parlous state of Haiti’s prison system after two damning reports issued last month – one by a leading local human rights group, National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), and the other by the United Nations (UN) Secretary General. The reports criticise his government for failing to act on what has already been admitted is a major human rights priority – in one of his first moves upon taking office in February, Moïse had announced a special nine-member commission to look into the issue.

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