A/HRC/28/82 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. 18 GE.15-02042

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