Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children,

SWAT officer Esdras Hilaire was killed in Port-au-Prince during an anti-gang operation, underscoring the worsening security crisis.

The situation has reached breaking point. Since the beginning of the year, reports of sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, have increased at an alarming

Haiti.- The United Nations Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting this Wednesday to evaluate the escalating humanitarian and security crisis in Haiti, where armed gangs continue to expand their control and government institutions face collapse.

The series of discussions on paths forward to help Haiti emerge from its multidimensional crisis was launched with a sense of hope and mobilization

The elite’s power struggles, corruption, and lack of accountability have created a climate of political instability, which has further fueled the crisis. The blame rhetoric ignores the fact that it is the elite in Haiti that controls two private ports of entry.

As gangs lay siege to the final stronghold of Haiti’s crumbling government, its inhabitants are desperately planning to take flight. “They come at night to steal everything they can, setting fires to hold their positions,

The United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, has sounded the alarm over the sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti. Patten raised the alarm over a surge in reports of sexual violence against women and girls since the beginning of the year,