Nearly 60% of the population lives below the poverty line. In recent months, Haiti has descended into a critical state of violence and chaos. More than one million children are trapped in areas ...

Yet for Haiti’s children — the millions caught in the crossfire, no longer able to attend school, or pushed to join the armed gangs amid crippling poverty — the situation is especially dire.

One of 51 children interviewed by the human rights group said he was constantly pressured by a gang to fight alongside it. “They killed people in front of me and asked me to burn their bodies.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Feb. 11, 2025)—An average of 24 children in Haiti were killed or injured every month in 2024, making it the deadliest year for children and their families since an escalation in ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Haiti’s children are increasingly caught in the crossfire of gang violence, forced to carry weapons, spy on police and rival gangs and run errands for gunmen ...

Gangs in Haiti are guilty of widespread crimes against children, including rape and killing, Amnesty International has said. In a new report published on Wednesday, the NGO said that escalating ...

Gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and the surrounding locality has produced a wave of human rights abuses against children, Amnesty International reported on Wednesday. Violence by ...

LES CAYES, Haiti, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a transformational step toward child protection and family reunification in Haiti, Overture International (Overture), in collaboration with IBESR ...

[Photo, AFP] Sexual violence against children in violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold last year, the UN children's agency said Friday, as gangs who control most of the capital upped their ...

A woman carries a child during a fight between police and gang members in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. More than 700,000 Haitians have been forced to leave their homes by the violence ...