WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Fee on Human Rights says it has requested provisional measures from the Inter-American Court docket of Human Rights (IACHR) in favor of Pretty Lamour in Haiti, “who’s in a state of affairs of utmost gravity and urgency of irreparable harm to her rights.”
In an announcement, the Fee, a principal and autonomous physique of the Group of American States (OAS), stated in August final 12 months that it granted precautionary measures in favor of Lamour “after figuring out that the necessities of seriousness, urgency, and irreparability have been met.
“Regardless of repeated actions to acquire info from the State of Haiti, in addition to the decision for a working assembly held on February 28, 2024, inside the framework of the 189th interval of classes, the Fee has not acquired a response indicating the adoption of appropriate and efficient measures to mitigate the recognized danger. Neither is there any info on concerted actions or measures to research danger occasions.”
The Fee stated that Lamour’s state of affairs had worsened considerably, affecting her security and her residing and well being situations.
“The proposed beneficiary is homeless, outdoors her standard residence, with out identification paperwork or monetary assets to entry ample medical therapy, and affected by poor diet.
“She is at present sleeping in a freight depot. Info means that she has been topic to threats from kinfolk of the particular person with whom she had an incident in 2023, which led to her arrest that 12 months. As well as, on the place the place she sleeps, she has been uncovered to bodily assault after refusing to have sexual relations with a few of the younger males who’re additionally there.,” the Fee stated.
It stated that Lamour didn’t obtain the required medical or psychological care throughout her being pregnant and after giving delivery, regardless of requiring it, and that in accordance with the data obtainable, her bodily well being has proven a extreme deterioration.
“Lamour has reported experiencing issues akin to decrease again ache and others associated to her reproductive well being. As well as, it has been talked about that her psychological well being has been affected and deteriorated because the separation and subsequent dying of her son, who was buried below the class of “indigent.”
The Fee stated it doesn’t have info on the well being measures offered by the State regardless of the precautionary measures in pressure.
It notes that the current request displays an distinctive state of affairs primarily based on the acute, pressing, and irreparable danger to Lamour’s rights and that it have to be assessed within the context of the State of Haiti, which has been the topic of ongoing evaluation by the OAS and the Fee, in addition to different human rights our bodies.
The Fee stated that for these causes, it requested the Inter-American Court docket to order the State of Haiti to implement the required measures, with a gender perspective, in favor of Pretty Lamour to ensure her life, private integrity, and well being, together with her reproductive well being.
It additionally needs the IACHR to take protecting measures to make sure your security below the situations you’re at present in and report on the measures adopted to make sure respect to your life, private integrity, and well being.
The Fee stated the Inter-American Court docket points provisional measures in circumstances of utmost gravity and urgency to stop irreparable harm to individuals.
“They’re binding on States, so the selections contained therein require States to take particular actions to safeguard rights and shield the lives of individuals in danger,” the Fee added.
In the meantime, the Haiti-based media group SOS Journalists is looking on the authorities to make sure that the circumstances of the murdered journalists Netty Duclair And Diégo Charles will not be swept below the carpet.
Duclair labored as a journalist for a number of media shops within the capital, together with Radio Sans Fin (RSF), whereas Charles was employed by Radio Imaginative and prescient 2000. They have been shot lifeless on the night of June 29, 2021, and since then, “the investigation continues” as standard.
“SOS Journalistes, calling on political and judicial authorities to behave, calls for that an actual investigation be carried out in order that the alleged perpetrators of the assassination of those journalists are lastly recognized, arrested, tried and sentenced by the legislation,” the media group stated.
It reiterated a name for all circumstances of murdered journalists to be “handled with the best seriousness and the required velocity” and that it intends to launch a nationwide protest quickly “to make sure that the circumstances transfer ahead and are concluded inside an affordable timeframe.”
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