The report, issued jointly by the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), states that ...

A 16-year-old Haitian boy has been talking about how he was lured into working for a criminal gang but then threatened with death when he said he would not fight against the police. Joseph is one of ...

Most of the 26 armed gangs operating in Haiti are involved in child trafficking, according to UN Human Rights Office ...

Child trafficking by gangs in Haiti has intensified amid escalating violence and institutional collapse and has placed the country’s long-term stability in jeopardy, according to a report released ...

There has been an “alarming increase” in the number of children being recruited into gangs in Haiti with “devastating ...

UN officials describe the findings as among the most alarming assessments yet of how deeply children have become entangled in Haiti’s spiraling security crisis.

A Kenyan police officer, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2024. AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph For decades, the United Nations has intervened ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gangs launched attacks in Haiti on Feb. 25, 2025. The attacks in the Delmas 30 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince sent residents ...

The United Nations Security Council has approved a much larger international security force for Haiti to tackle escalating gang violence in the conflict-torn country. Known as the "Gang Suppression ...

The warning comes as the nine-member Transitional Presidential Council appears to be moving toward ousting yet another prime minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, after failing to reach consensus on how ...

UN Secretary General António Guterres issued a statement Sunday condemning an attack by armed gangs in Haiti that killed at least 40 people. Women, children, and the elderly were among the victims of ...

UNITED NATIONS(AP) — The U.N. Security Council criticized Haitian authorities Thursday for the lack of progress in achieving a political transition and called for urgent security sector reforms to ...