The United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR), Volker Türk, arrives in Haiti on Wednesday on a two-day official go to to the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) nation.
Türk’s go to is on the invitation of the Haitian authorities that’s beneath extreme stress from opposition events to demit workplace and maintain contemporary elections following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021.
As well as, legal gangs have been staging kidnappings for ransom and different violence acts in defiance of the police and the military.
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Throughout his go to, Türk will meet senior authorities officers, the ombudsperson, state safety officers, representatives of the judiciary, in addition to members of civil society organizations and victims of human rights violations in Port-au-Prince.
Türk will even go to Ouanaminthe within the northeast of the nation, the place he’ll meet with native authorities and civil society organizations.
He’s anticipated to carry a information convention earlier than his departure on Friday.
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