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Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians

·June 12, 2025·2 min read

This represents a 24 per cent increase from December 2024 according to the UN agency – the largest number of people displaced by violence on record there. “Behind these numbers are so many individual people whose suffering is immeasurable; children, mothers, the elderly, many of them forced to flee their...

‘Generations of Haitians’ at risk, warns Guterres, calling for international force to help quell gang violence

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·July 2, 2023·2 min read

The UN chief expressed deep concern at the extreme vulnerability faced by the Haitian people – especially women and girls – because of brutally violent and “predatory” armed gangs, like those encircling the capital, blocking main roads and controlling access to water, food, health care. “I condemn in the strongest possible...

Stop deporting Haitians: Rights experts’ appeal to countries in Americas

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·April 30, 2023·1 min read

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sounded the alarm after 36,000 people of Haitian origin were deported during the first three months of the year, according to figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Some 90 per cent were deported from the Dominican Republic. Violations...

Young Haitians bond over sports, earrings and pineapple jam |

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·November 12, 2022·6 min read

Some 1500 young people got together at the Semans Lapè (Seeds of Peace) project event supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund. UN Haiti/Jonathan Boulet-Groulx Craft products, including earrings, are exhibited at a youth event in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Rosemonde* (23 years old) “I live in Cite Soleil which is under the control of...

‘Haitians are coming together to tackle the cholera crisis’: A UN Resident Coordinator Blog |

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·October 26, 2022·4 min read

“I visited several cholera treatment centres in the most affected neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince and saw heart-breaking scenes; children who were so malnourished, it was difficult to insert a drip into their arms or legs; adults who were clearly very ill. What immediately struck me was the intense smell of chlorine...