NEW YORK —Haiti’s human rights crisis is spiraling out of control, driven by entrenched elite corruption, a fractured ...

We welcome the reports of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Independent Expert on Haiti. Haiti’s crisis has reached catastrophic levels, with criminal groups carrying out large ...

In October 2023, the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to address the dire humanitarian crisis and insecurity in Haiti. Council ...

Human Rights Watch offers up recommendations to the UN on what a new U.N. peacekeeping mission for Haiti should look like, be mandated to do ...

The crisis situation in Haiti continues to escalate. Last week, a human rights group in the country released figures showing that kidnappings in the country had dramatically increased in the first ...

In a briefing paper, Human Rights Watch has also offered guidance on what a newly re-envisioned U.N. mission in Haiti should look like. The group’s recommendations don’t differ that much from ...

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 ...

Gang violence in Haiti has intensified since October 2024, claiming nearly 5,000 lives, according to a U.N. report. The capital, Port-au-Prince, is particularly affected, with over 1,000 casualties ...

The Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights (CARDH) announced on Thursday that they would temporarily suspend their operations in Haiti due to escalating threats against its staff. CARDH has ...

As deadly gang violence unfolds against another Port-au-Prince neighborhood and another police officer lost his life trying to help the public fend off armed attacks, Human Rights Watch is calling ...

The United Nations' expert on human rights in Haiti said on Friday that the situation in the conflict-hit Caribbean nation had worsened and efforts to rebuild security must be amplified as a ...

Haiti’s crisis has reached catastrophic levels and the country urgently needs a full-fledged United Nations mission to stem the intensifying violence being carried out by heavily armed allied criminal ...