UN NEWS—The already dire human rights situation in Haiti has deteriorated even further amid unrelenting and expanding gang violence, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Friday. At least 806 people not involved in violent gang wars were killed, injured, or kidnapped in
UN NEWS—Gang violence in Haiti is on the rise with new alliances being forged and expansion into rural areas previously considered safe, warns a new UN report. The report, published on Tuesday by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) and the UN political mission in Haiti (BINUH), calls for the
Two Haitian journalists were the latest casualties of the increasing gang violence in the beleaguered Caribbean nation. In a report by The Guardian that cited Radio Ecoute FM as source, journalists John Wesley Amady and Wilguens Louissaint were slain by “armed bandits” on Thursday in Laboule,
In a desperate measure to survive the aftermath of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti last month, the island's residents could find themselves resorting to violence—especially with girls and women—a humanitarian organisation has warned. In a press release, Save the Children has pointed out the situation
Thousands of Haitians living in the country's capital are fleeing their homes as criminal activity and violence caused by several armed gangs have become more rampant. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported that civilians have been "threatened, injured, sexually assaulted or
