Sexual violence in Haiti Duvalier's son Baby Doc ended in 1986. Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier became President of Haiti at age 18 upon his father's death in 1971. According to human rights groups Duvalier used widespread violence, including rape, as a means of suppressing opposition to his regime. Duvalier's presidency lasted until a popular uprising overthrew him in 1986. After the uprising he spent 25 years in France, and when he returned to Haiti he was arrested on charges of human rights abuses including rape; however a judge ruled that the statute of limitations had expired on these crimes. The Duvalier regimes would later
Jean-Claude Guillebaud Jean-Claude Guillebaud Jean-Claude Guillebaud (21 May 1944, Algiers) is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist. A journalist at the daily "Sud Ouest", then at the newspaper "Le Monde" and the weekly "Le Nouvel Observateur", Jean-Claude Guillebaud also directed the organisation Reporters Without Borders. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Prix Albert-Londres. He is a member of the sponsorship committee of the of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published "". He kept a weekly column on the life of the media in the television supplement of "Le Nouvel Observateur" before replacing Jacques Julliard as