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For five weeks - between October 8th and November 13th - a team of engineers and technicians from MINUSTAH's Brazilian contingent worked to rehabilitate 140 meters of 'international road' linking Port-au-Prince and the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo, via the border point of Malpasse. Undertaken at the request of the Ministère des Travaux Publics, des Transports, et Communications d’Haïti (MTPTC – or Ministry of Public Works, Transport…
Photo: Yves Edouard Sévère - UN/MINUSTAH MINUSTAH Communication and Public Information Office invites you to see our Year in review photo gallery. Click on this link to access the gallery Also, watch this United Nation's video highlighting this year's key events: Amid continuing turmoil and crises, it was a year of major strides for diplomacy as the United Nations worked to negotiate peace, instill hope and define a sustainable future for all. We…
Forum de Baraderes Dans la commune de Baradères, on est loin de tout. Surtout quand il faut accéder à la justice. C'est pour y remédier qu'un forum communautaire s'est penché sur les questions de justice populaire. In remote Baradères, access to justice is a challenge. In order to tackle it, a community forum was held to find alternatives to popular justice. Destruction contrôlée La MINUSTAH et la PNH ont récemment détruit 8,3 tonnes de munitions…
At the GHESKIO health centre, the enemy is not disease, but poverty. What good is rude health, if you remain on the side-walk without any economic opportunities? To address this issue, a vocational school for female victims of sexually transmitted diseases was established in July 2013 - with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in a medical centre known throughout Port-au-Prince. Here, 150 patients learn sustainable…
In an atmosphere of veritable joy, 1,058 new police officers - including 111 women - of the 24th Promotion were sworn-in on December 27th at a graduation ceremony held at the Police Academy in Port-au-Prince. This new Promotion is the first in the Police Nationale d'Haïti's Development Plan 2012-2016. "After eight months and 27 days of training I'm very pleased today to be a police officer," says Guerline François, in the arms of her big sister…
Un bureau de lutte contre la violence faite aux femmes vient d’ouvrir ses portes au commissariat de Jacmel (Sud-est). Là, les victimes pourront en toute quiétude porter plainte, recevoir un accompagnement médical et une assistance juridique. Inauguré le 4 décembre dernier, ce bureau est un projet financé par le gouvernement de la Norvège en appui avec la MINUSTAH. « Lutter contre la violence exercée sur les femmes est un combat de tous les jours…
Les nouveaux locaux des sous-commissariats de Carrefour Chivry (entrée de Fort Liberté) et de la Douane de Ouanaminthe (ville frontalière avec la République Dominicaine) ont été inaugurés, le 23 décembre 2013. Il s’agit deux projets financés par la MINUSTAH. « Ces réalisations sont la preuve palpable du soutien de la MINUSTAH au développement et au renforcement de la Police nationale d’Haïti (PNH) », a déclaré le directeur départemental de la PNH…
Sung about in popular songs, present in homes and displayed in public places and on TV, fanaux (plural of fanal in French) are an expression of traditional Haitian art practice typically deployed at the end-of-year holiday season. Little houses in a 'Gingerbread' style (the traditional domestic building of Haiti), miniature churches topped with bell towers and multicoloured cubes... constitute the different types of fanaux exposed everywhere…
The Court of First Instance of Port-au-Prince resumed its hearings on December 2nd following a significant accumulation of dossiers piling-up on judges desks... The court has now returned to its usual functioning – with parked cars and several small groups evidencing the slow return to complete normality. "Today, at least, the judge may see my brother, and perhaps he'll be released," hopes one man - speaking following a brief conversation with a…
Port-au-Prince, le 23th December 2013- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Haiti, Sandra Honoré, presents her best wishes to the Government and people of Haiti for the New Year, hoping that it brings serenity and spirit of peace, and sees the consecration of the efforts of all Haitians for recovery and sustainable development in the country. The Special Representative welcomes the strength with which the…
Just over 350 people now have drinking water on Ile de la Tortue (Northwest region) since eleven large new cisterns were inaugurated on November 28th. "The project has brought clean water to families and has created sufficient employment to allow our children to go to school," says Edmond – a mason who lives in the locality of Pagne, on Ile de la Tortue. Family-size, The new 'family-sized' cisterns allow for the storing and filtering of rainwater…