United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/PRST/28/3 Distr.: General 9 April 2015 English Original: French Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building Statement by the President PRST 28/3 Situation of human rights in Haiti At the 58th meeting, held on 27 March 2015, the President of the Human Rights Council read out the following statement: “The Human Rights Council: 1. Thanks the Independent Expert for his report on the situation of human rights in Haiti 1 and takes note of the latest legal and political developments in Haiti, including the progress achieved in civil and political rights, and in economic, social and cultural rights: (a) The implementation, in May 2014, of phase II of the legal aid bureaux plan to make justice accessible to the most disadvantaged; (b) The enactment in 2014 of the law on preventing and combating corruption and the law on paternity, maternity and filiation; (c) The launching in Kenscoff on 23 February 2015, as part of the Threeyear Agricultural Revival Programme, of the “Spring Agricultural Campaign” aimed at increasing the production and availability of basic foodstuffs for the Haitian people; (d) The announcement, on 5 March 2015, of the development of a new security plan for the metropolitan region in order to bring an end to violence in the capital; (e) The nomination of a new President of the Court of Cassation and of the High Council of the Judiciary, and his inauguration on 9 March 2015; (f) The launching, on 11 March 2015, by the Government, the United Nations and their partners, of a Transitional Appeal for the period 2015–2016 aimed 1 A/HRC/28/82. GE.15-07462 (E) 290415 290415 