In August 2016 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip Alston, delivered a damning report on the responsibility and culpability of the UN in relation to the ongoing presence of cholera in Haiti. The first ever cholera outbreak on the island began in mid-October 2010, ten months after a devastating earthquake led to deaths of (at least) 220,000 people. The cholera outbreak, six years on, has infected thousands and claimed over 9,000 lives. To this day, there is controversy around its causes, who knew what in the early weeks of the outbreak and who bears responsibility for eradicating the disease as well as compensating those who have lost so much because of it.