evictions Haiti

In this short video, families from Camp Django in Delmas 17 left the space they have called home for more than a year after attacks by the Haitian National Police and intimidation by the United Nations peacekeeping forces (MINUSTAH). Includes interviews with displaced women, Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmas, and highlights the precarious new living conditions where many of Haiti's most vulnerable people are being forced to relocate.

In the midst of the hurricane season, as Tropical Storm Emily was predicted to bear down on Port-au-Prince, the Haitian authorities continued to forcibly and illegally evict homeless families from their makeshift shelters. Internally displaced people have been living in tent cities and under tarps for more than 18 months while the Haitian government and NGOs have been slow to provide safe alternative housing for the hundreds of thousands rendered homeless by the earthquake on January 12, 2010.

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[merrywivesofwindsor]

What happened to the billions that were donated to the country for rebuilding? Surely they could pull together some money for living space for these people.

[jessie333ify]

i understand wat shes saying i am haitian

[cvzdez]

why stay in port ou prince, leave that town, what s so better there. You have no home, no fresh water, not deed to a land.. squatting is not cool

[mac2j2005]

What ? $13 Billion IDK what your talking about, lol we spent that on tents