Haiti

The Republic of Haiti signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 15 February 2006, becoming a State Party on 1 August 2006. Haiti has never used, produced, exported, imported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. Haiti has not enacted new legislation specifically to implement the Mine Ban Treaty. Haiti submitted its initial Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report on 17 February 2009, but has not provided subsequent reports.

Haiti did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty meetings in 2011 or the first half of 2012.

Haiti is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

The Republic of Haiti signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 28 October 2009.

The status of ratification is not currently known. Previously, in January 2012, the president of the Senate said that the National Assembly was considering ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.[1]

Haiti did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions and did not attend a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions until the Fourth Meeting of State Parties in Lusaka, Zambia in September 2013. Haiti attended a regional workshop on cluster munitions in Santiago, Chile in December 2013, which issued a declaration urging the “early establishment” of a cluster munitions-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean.[2]

Haiti has condemned Syria’s use of cluster munitions by voting in favor of UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions condemning the use including Resolution 68/182 on 18 December 2013, which expressed “outrage” at Syria’s “continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights…including those involving the use of…cluster munitions.”[3]

Haiti is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. Haiti has not joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Haiti is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.