Haiti

Has laws regulating migration-related detention?

Yes

Refugees

8

2018

Asylum Applications

5

2019

International Migrants

18,884

2020

Population

11,700,000

2023

International Migrants as % of Population

0.17%

2020

Overview

Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

10 February 2021 – Haiti

Haiti reported its first two positive COVID-19 cases on 20 March 2020. As a response, the government implemented policies such as the closing of airports, ports, schools, and factories, limits on gatherings, and a curfew. The shared border with the Dominican Republic (DR) was also officially closed, yet border crossings persisted in practice and were […]

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J. Charles, “COVID-19 has reached Haiti’s overcrowded prisons. Some fear a human rights disaster,” Miami Herald, 27 May 2020, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article243018516.html
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DETENTION STATISTICS

Total Migration Detainees: Flow + Stock (year)
Not Available
2019

DETAINEE DATA

Total Number of Children Placed in Immigration Detention (Year)
0
2017

DETENTION CAPACITY

ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION

ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT DATA

PRISON DATA

Criminal Prison Population (Year)
10,500
2016
9,921
2013
Prison Population Rate (per 100,000 of National Population)
96
2016
95
2013

POPULATION DATA

Population (Year)
11,700,000
2023
11,400,000
2020
10,711,000
2015
International Migrants (Year)
18,884
2020
18,756
2019
39,500
2015
International Migrants as Percentage of Population (Year)
0.17
2020
0.4
2015
Refugees (Year)
Not Available
2022
8
2018
5
2017
0
2016
3
2015
3
2014
Asylum Applications (Year)
Not Available
2022
5
2019
6
2013
Refugee Recognition Rate (Year)
75
2014
Stateless Persons (Year)
Not Available
2022
2,992
2018
2,302
2016
0
2015

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA & POLLS

Gross Domestic Product per Capita (in USD)
824
2014
Remittances to the Country
1,954
2014
Unemployment Rate
2014
Net Official Development Assistance (ODA) (in Millions USD)
1,083.5
2014
Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)
163 (Low)
2014

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

Does the Country Have Specific Laws that Provide for Migration-Related Detention?
Yes
1953

GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

Legal Tradition(s)
Civil law
2017

LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

Detention-Related Legislation
Loi du 19 Septembre 1953 sur l’Immigration et L'Émigration (1953)
1953

GROUNDS FOR MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

LENGTH OF MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION INSTITUTIONS

PROCEDURAL STANDARDS & SAFEGUARDS

DETENTION MONITORS

> National human rights monitoring bodies

> National Preventive Mechanisms (Optional Protocol to UN Convetion against Torture)

> Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

> Governmental monitoring bodies

> International detention monitoring

TRANSPARENCY

READMISSION/RETURN/EXTRADITION AGREEMENTS

COVID-19

HEALTH CARE

COVID-19 DATA

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

International Treaties Ratified
Ratification Year
Observation Date
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
2013
2013
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2011
2011
CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2011
2011
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2009
2009
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1995
1995
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1991
1991
PCRSR, Protocol to the Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1984
1984
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1984
1984
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1981
1981
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
1978
1978
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
1972
1972
Ratio of relevant international treaties ratified
Ratio: 11/19
Individual Complaints Procedures
Acceptance Year
CRPD, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2009
2009
Ratio of Complaints Procedures Accepted
Observation Date
1/6
1/6
Relevant Recommendations Issued by Treaty Bodies
Recommendation Year
Observation Date
Committee on the Rights of the Child § 61. "The Committee urges the State party to take prompt measures to provide children and their families who have been expelled from the Dominican Republic with access to adequate nutrition, water, sanitation, housing and health care. It should furthermore ensure assistance to and protection of unaccompanied children, drawing upon the principles set out in general comment no. 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin. The Committee also recommends that the State party strengthen cooperation with authorities from the Dominican Republic to ensure that relocation to Haiti takes place in a manner that respects the human rights of children and their families." 2016
2016

NON-TREATY-BASED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Visits by Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council
Year of Visit
Observation Date
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery 2009
2009
2015
Relevant Recommendations from the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2016
2017
No 2011

REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Regional Legal Instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
Observation Date
CBDP, Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Para) 1997
1997
ACHR, American Convention on Human Rights 1977
1977

DETENTION COSTS

OUTSOURCING

FOREIGN SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR DETENTION OPERATIONS