The Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Hu­man Rights, Volk­er Türk, Fri­day said that the hu­man rights sit­u­a­tion in Haiti has reached yet an­oth­er cri­sis point and called on re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing the me­dia “ to put the spot­light on this cri­sis, so that the in­tol­er­a­ble suf­fer­ing and de­struc­tion can end.

“The Hait­ian peo­ple can­not be for­got­ten,” Türk told the 58th ses­sion of the Hu­man Rights Coun­cil, not­ing that when he last vis­it­ed the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try, he heard com­mu­ni­ties call­ing out for help, ex­haust­ed and fright­ened from years of vi­o­lence, in­se­cu­ri­ty and un­bear­able pre­car­i­ty.

Türk said that in the two years since then, the sit­u­a­tion has dra­mat­i­cal­ly wors­ened, telling the Coun­cil “their plea must be heard.