"Forced evictions in Haiti are worsening the already desperate situation of thousands of people still living in displacement camps more than three years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010," Amnesty International said as it launched the report.

"Appeals from Amnesty International and other NGOs to halt the forced evictions have fallen on deaf ears - not only has the Haitian government not put an end to them, but it has allowed them to increase since the beginning of this year," said Javier Zúñiga, Special Advisor at Amnesty International.

Almost 1,000 families have been forcibly evicted from their homes between January and March this year – an about-turn from 2012 when forced evictions were on the decline, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

These 977 new families evicted come on top of the at least 60,978 people who were forcibly evicted between July 2010 and the end of 2012. Many of these forced evictions have been carried out or condoned by the authorities. "Forced evictions threaten nearly a quarter of the more than 320,000 people still living in camps more than three years on from the earthquake," explained Zúñiga.

The report Nowhere to go: Forced evictions in Haiti’s camps for displaced people is based on three fact-finding visits to Haiti by Amnesty International delegates in 2011 and 2012, which focussed on forced evictions and other human rights violations in the context of post-quake displacement in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.

HL/ HaitiLibre