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.

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 ...

U.S. aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children in Haiti as violence spirals and more young people are recruited by armed gangs, the U.N. children's agency warned on ...

Now, 10 months later, with the security situation in Haiti far worse, the State Department refuses to provide equal protection to the remaining children. Over 20 of these children have full and ...

Ali Rogin speaks with James Elder of UNICEF about the effect on Haiti’s children. In Haiti, years of chaos and instability have brought the country to the brink of collapse. More than a million ...

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 ...

Children also comprise half of the record one million-plus displaced to date by the violence in Haiti. After sharing the latest displacement data, Ulrika Richardson, the UN’s top aid official in ...

[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 ...

US Aid Cuts Having Dire Impact on Haiti's Children, Says UNICEF By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children in Haiti ...