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iciHaiti - Social : Repatriated and internally displaced, the OPC deplores the inaction of the Government 21/06/2020 09:50:30
Recall that in October 2014, the Haitian Government and the UNHCR signed a headquarters agreement allowing the UN agency to establish itself in Haiti and carry out operations relating to its mandate, which includes, among other things, providing assistance to applicants for asylum and refugees. However, as part of a comprehensive approach to migration policy, much remains to be done, particularly with regard to the protection of returnees and internally displaced persons, the number of which is only increasing due to the climate of insecurity in several places in the country. Faced with the situation, the Citizen Protection Office (OPC) deplores the lack of dynamism of the Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which, during this period of Covid-19 pandemic, could not negotiate with international partners concerned a moratorium in favor of compatriots in "irregular migration situation" in certain countries of the American continent and the Caribbean. Today in Haiti, tens of thousands of returnees, notably from the Dominican Republic and to a lesser extent from the United States of the Bahamas among others... are abandoned to themselves without any financial resources. In addition, hundreds of families living in different districts of the capital and provincial communes (Cité soleil, Bicentenaire, Savien, Petite rivière de l'Artibonite) are forced to abandon their homes to escape scenes of imposed violence by armed groups. These families, considered to be internally displaced, are not subject to support or special treatment by the state authorities. On World Refugee Day, the OPC expresses its deepest concern over the situation of returnees and internally displaced people living in extremely vulnerable conditions in the country and exposed to all forms of violence and exploitation. The OPC recommends that the State authorities include an action plan in the protection of returnees and internally displaced persons in public policies and also strengthen the legal and institutional framework for asylum applications and the protection of refugees found on the national territory. IH/ iciHaiti
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