Amélie Gauthier

La question de la relocalisation des déplacés des camps se fait pressante.

Executive summary

In Haiti, Handicap International estimated that 800,000 people were living with disabilities before the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake; they were among the poorest in the country. With the quake, the number of people with disabilities has increased dramatically, putting an even greater strain on an already weak infrastructure. Many newly-disabled children have also lost their parents and their homes, and the disabled previously congested in Port-au-Prince have shifted into outlying regions

The conflict in Colombia is now presenting itself in a new form, one that has not been seen before. War has reached the cities, setting the stage for a reformulation of Colombia's policy of democratic security.

The period between 2003 and 2005 saw the creation of new paramilitary groups identified by the Colombian government as 'criminal bands' (BACRIM in its Spanish acronym). These bands have inherited the structure of the old United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC), as well as its drug and arms trafficking businesses.

It is expected that the number of persons living with physical disabilities will continue to rise.

When the world was attentive to the shocking reports and images out of Haiti in the aftermath of the January earthquake, nothing was heard about what was happening to people already living with disabilities.

When the injured were dug out from the rubble, many were horrified to discover that hundreds of amputations were performed under canvas, without proper equipment. Now that the camera crews