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recommendations made by a consultative commission that he had set up to resolve the
elections impasse. That led to the appointment of a new Prime Minister on 25
December, as a first step towards forming a government that would include
opposition parties. As of this writing, other urgent measures recommended by the
commission were in the process of being implemented;
(d)
With the death of the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, it is all the
more important to set up the national commission for reparation that was to have
been established in 1995, as recommended by the National Truth and Justice
Commission created for victims of the 1991 coup. This is important as well for the
victims of other large-scale, systematic and serious human rights violations committed
in the past, whether under the regime of the Duvaliers and the military governments
or in connection with acts of violence perpetrated by groups supporting or opposing
President Aristide. Aside from overseeing material reparations and judicial
declarations of responsibility, the commission could contribute in the medium and
long term to defining educational activities aimed at re-establishing the right to
memory, which would help to improve the human rights situation in the country
immeasurably;
(e)
Resources must be increased considerably to guarantee the right to
housing and decent living conditions for the displaced persons still living in camps set
up after the January 2010 earthquake;
(f)
A reparations commission should be established for the victims of the
cholera epidemic in order to catalogue the damage suffered and the corresponding
indemnification, identify those responsible and halt the epidemic, among other
actions;
(g)
The issue of statelessness covers a vast area and is dealt with by the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as the competent
specialized body of the United Nations. The Human Rights Council should call upon
the authorities of the Dominican Republic to ensure the rights of residents of Haitian
origin as ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its judgement of
28 August 2014;
(h)
Special attention needs to be accorded to the rights of women in all the
above-mentioned areas. The Independent Expert supports the recruiting of an expert
to assist with preparing the report of Haiti to the Committee for the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women.
91.
The Independent Expert encourages the Government to give due consideration
to these recommendations, and to those transmitted by the Human Rights Committee,
in preparing the action plan to promote and protect human rights in Haiti that is
currently being prepared by the Interministerial Committee on Human Rights.
92.
The urgent actions recommended in the preceding paragraphs are necessary
for three reasons: first, to put an end to serious human rights violations that will
otherwise continue to be perpetrated against thousands of individuals; second, to
convey to the people of Haiti and the international community the commitment to
providing redress for human rights violations; and third, to open the way for
implementation of other human rights recommendations made over the past three
decades. The Independent Expert reaffirms his readiness to assist in this effort.
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