Haiti - Politic : Important meeting between the PM and the High Commissioner Volker Türk
On Wednesday February 8, 2023 in the morning, Prime Minister a.i. Ariel Henry in the presence of Ministers Jean Victor Généus (Foreign Affairs) and Me Emmelie Prophète Milcé (Justice a.i.) had an important working session on the human rights situation, with Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on an official visit to Haiti until February 10 at the invitation of the Haitian Government
"We informed the High Commissioner of the Government's initiatives in the area of human rights, including national dialogue, the creation of an enabling environment for the organization of elections, the strengthening of the judicial system, the reduction of preventive detention.
Haiti has taken good note of the recommendations within the framework of the Universal Policy Evaluation. We will begin, as soon as possible, to implement them. In about two years, we will be able to submit a progress report to the High Commissioner.
It was also an opportunity to highlight the many implications of the country's multidimensional crisis, in particular the right to life, to health, to respect for private life, to the free movement of persons and property, and property rights," feclared the Head of Government on social networks at the end of this meeting.
Moreover, taking advantage of this official visit, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) urged High Commissioner Türk to support the rule of law in Haiti recognizing the unconstitutional nature of the initiative to amend the Constitution of Haiti by referendum.
