Biomedical subjects
Haiti
Publications and source records attributed to Haiti.
Establishment of Inter-Sectoral Committee to draft a population policy.
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Order of 31 July 1989 determining the structure of the National Office of Community Education and Literacy and fixing its operating procedures.
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Order defining the jurisdiction of the forestry guard, 30 December 1987.
This Order defines the jurisdiction of the Haitian forestry guard in order better to protect the State's hydrographic basins and national forest resources. It provides that the forestry guard is to have the following functions: 1) to oversee in general the application of forestry legislation; 2) to stop all forms of agricultural or forestry exploitation that harm state lands; 3) to confiscate all illicitly exploited forestry resources; 4) to inspect regularly the parts of the forest or parks assigned to its care; and 5) to control the circulation of wood and wood products, documents, and freight. In collaboration with other interested state agencies, the forestry guard is also to prevent forest fires and promote the natural and man-made generation of the forest.
Decree of 14 November 1988.
This Decree amends Article 55 of the Haiti Civil Code to authorize the mother of a child to declare the birth of the child at the Civil Status Office if the father does not make the declaration. It also provides that, if the declaration is not made within two years of the month of delivery, an Officer of Civil Status may not enter the birth in the register unless a court authorizes the entry. Proof of civil status may be of any sort legally recognized. Further, the Decree requires all persons without birth certificates to regularize their civil status within five years of the promulgation of the Decree and requires a birth certificate to be produced for persons being baptized or "presented at the Temple."
Decree of 30 August 1988.
This Haitian Decree abolishes the status known as "civil death" whereby a person was convicted of serious crimes and deprived of all legal personality while physically still alive. The Decree also abolishes, as a ground of divorce, the existence of "civil death" on the part of one of the spouses.