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U.S. Report Slams Haiti for Human Rights Violations

Harsh criticism has come out of Washington D.C., regarding human rights abuses in several Caribbean countries. The U.S. government released its comprehensive report "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013". Countries receiving the most condemnation for alleged human rights abuses included Haiti, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas.

All of the Caribbean countries singled out for egregious human rights abuses shared the same characteristics. Some were prison overcrowding; a weak judiciary system; wide-spread corruption in all government sectors; human trafficking; police brutality; and discrimination against women.

In Haiti's case, the alleged human rights abuses included willful and illegimate murders by government functionaries; excessive use of force by police towards suspects and demonstrators; child abuse under a system called restavek, and human trafficking.

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