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(c)
Personnel trained in rights-based techniques to assist should be made
available to the Commission’s headquarters permanent staff with processing applications
and presenting them to the Commission, and with the various phases of project
implementation.
86.
With regard to the involvement of civil society in reconstruction, the Independent
Expert recommends that the following measures be taken:
(a)
Specific rights-based training, in particular for humanitarian aid workers,
should be provided;
(b)
Training workshops on monitoring the application of a rights-based approach
to reconstruction should be organized with the help of MINUSTAH and the involvement of
Haitian or international experts;
(c)
Reconstruction projects and, in particular, the application of the rights-based
approach, should be subject to public oversight;
(d)
Civil society, especially organizations dealing with vulnerable persons such
as women, children and persons with disabilities, should be involved systematically in the
rebuilding of the country;
(e)
Labour-intensive reconstruction programmes should not be concentrated
solely in the economic sectors traditionally occupied by men.
87.
With regard to the case of Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Independent Expert
recommends that the following measures be taken:
(a)
All available legal options for holding a fair trial should be explored;
(b)
A project to preserve the historical memory should be undertaken, modelled
on the truth and fact-finding commissions established in various African and Latin
American countries;
(c)
Education programmes should be established to teach young people about the
crimes of the past;
(d)
A process of reflection on the impact of those crimes on the country’s future
should be undertaken.
88.
With regard to relations with civil society, the Independent Expert recommends that
the following measures be taken:
(a)
Working relations and cooperation between Haitian human rights
organizations and the MINUSTAH Human Rights Section in Port-au-Prince should be
restored;
(b)
The possibility and relative advantages of replacing the MINUSTAH Human
Rights Section with an office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights should be
considered.
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