The UN Security Council is trying to crack down on rising levels of gang violence in Haiti by extending embargo on weapons. The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to expand its arms embargo in Haiti because of grave concerns over extremely high levels of gang violence. The embargo will…
More than 6,200 people are staying with relatives or in makeshift shelters after massacre in central Haiti town. Survivors of a deadly gang attack in central Haiti last week have described waking up to gunfire and walking for hours in search of safety, as the country continues to grapple in the…
The UN Human Rights Office said at least 3,000 people were forced to flee after gang members attacked early on Thursday. At least 70 people have been killed and 3,000 forced to flee when armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang attacked a town in central Haiti. The Office…
The Dominican Republic says it plans to expel as many as 10,000 Haitian migrants per week, despite a longstanding call from the United Nations to end forced returns to Haiti amid a surge in gang violence there. Homero Figueroa, a Dominican presidential spokesman, said on Wednesday that the “operation aims…
More than half of those displaced are children, the UN agency for migration says, calling for international support. More than 700,000 people are now internally displaced from their homes in Haiti, with over half of them being children, according to a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM)….
The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of a multinational police mission to Haiti for another year, as the Caribbean nation struggles to stem a surge in gang violence and instability. The resolution, adopted unanimously on Monday, expressed “deep concern about the situation in Haiti including violence, criminal…
UN rights chief calls for crackdown on arms trafficking that fuels ‘criminality’ and widens humanitarian crisis. At least 3,661 people have been killed in Haiti in the first half of this year amid the “senseless” gang violence that has engulfed the country, according to the United Nations. The UN Office…
Washington, DC – Amid an onslaught of falsehoods spread about Haitian migrants in the United States, rights advocate Guerline Jozef says she received a flood of appeals from community members. They wanted to know what was being done to stem the tide of hateful rhetoric being amplified by Republican presidential…
The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus informed lawmakers on Wednesday that he intends to file a resolution to censure Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) after the Louisiana Republican called Haitians “wild” and referred to their homeland as the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere.” “Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating…
Kenyan President William Ruto has landed in the Haitian capital to assess a Kenya-led security mission in the Caribbean nation, a day after a United Nations expert warned that Haiti faced deepening violence and insecurity. In a statement on Saturday, a spokesperson for Ruto said the Kenyan leader would “visit…
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