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Right to Housing: Republic of Haiti-Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review

A majority of Haitians live in overpopulated urban centers, shanty towns or under-developed villages that fail to meet minimum standards of habitability.These conditions pre-date the earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010, and according to the Government’s own assessment, exacerbated its effects.Fourteen months after the earthquake, 800,000 homeless people still live in squalid IDP camps that fall short of the Sphere minimum humanitarian standards, or international standards for adequate housing. At the time of this submission, the Government has yet to adopt this or any other return and resettlement policy, exposing IDPs to continued vulnerability and lack of access to sustainable housing solutions.

Link: http://ijdh.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Haiti-UPR-Housing-Report-Final-English.pdf
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