Sexual violence against children has increased 1,000% since 2023, turning their bodies "into battlegrounds", spokesman James ...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Sexual violence against children in violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold last year, the United Nations (UN) children’s agency said Friday, as gangs who control most of the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Sexual violence against children in Haiti has surged in the last year and their bodies have been turned ...

the UN children's agency said. Haiti has been mired for decades by political instability, made worse in recent years by criminal gangs that have grown more powerful. Gangs now control 85 percent ...

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The UN office in Haiti released a report on the human rights situation in Haiti calling the situation "very alarming." ...

Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely ...

UNITED NATIONS ... rights report on Haiti reiterated concerns over the continuing rape and sexual exploitation of women and girls by gang members, and the recruitment of children into the gangs.

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Gang rule in Haiti has led to a staggering rise in sexual violence against children, the United Nations' children's organisation has warned. The Caribbean island has been in the grip of violent ...

Kidnappings for extortion are common in Haiti. She is now in a UN shelter with dozens ... long-delayed elections. Children are also being recruited by the gangs, sometimes forcibly, Unicef said.

Unicef has reported a staggering tenfold increase in sexual violence against children in Haiti, as armed gangs controlling 85 per cent of Port-au-Prince escalate their recruitment of minors ...