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Women This Week: New Report Outlines Staggering Impact of Gangs on Children in Haiti
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'Staggering' rise in sexual violence against children in Haiti, says UN
Aid organisations say gang control has led to a ten-fold increase in sexual violence towards children.
Haiti: Children suffering gang recruitment, attacks and sexual violence amid escalating crisis - New Report
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Children in Haiti falling prey to gruesome gang violence, Amnesty warns
Report estimates that more than a million children live in areas controlled by or under the influence of armed gangs.
Children in Haiti face consequences of worsening gang crisis, rights group reports
Prince, Haiti's capital, and the surrounding locality has produced a series of human rights abuses against children, Amnesty International reported on Wednesday. Violence by
Haitian children subject to gang recruitment, attacks and sexual violence – Amnesty International
International human rights group Amnesty International, says relentless gang violence in the Haitian capital and surrounding areas has resulted in a brutal attack on childhood in the French-speaking country.
Sexual Violence and Displacement: Disproportionate Threats to Children in Haiti
As ongoing gang violence and unrest bring down the living conditions in Haiti, humanitarian groups sound the alarm on human rights violations and the increasing challenges they dace in providing relief efforts.
Amnesty International details gruesome impact of gang violence on children in Haiti
Haiti’s children are increasingly caught in the crossfire of gang violence, forced to carry weapons, spy on police and rival gangs and r
Sexual violence against children soars in Haiti, says UN
Sexual violence against children in violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold last year, the United Nations (UN) children’s agency said Friday, as gang
Widespread gang violence in Haiti: 'Overwhelming assault on childhood itself'
Amnesty International has just released a report detailing the harrowing plight of children amid widespread gang violence in war-torn Haiti. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24's Eve Irvine welcomes Rawya Rageh,
Children in Haiti subjected to brutal gang violence, report says
At least 5,600 people were killed in Haiti in 2024, an increase of more than 1,000 from the previous year. Another 2,212 people were injured and 1,494 kidnapped. View on euronews
Haitian childhoods stolen by gangs and impunity
Armed groups operating in Port-au-Prince have 'undermined a myriad of children's human rights,' according to a new report by ...
Children's Bodies a 'Battleground' in Haiti as Sexual Violence Surges, UNICEF Warns
GENEVA (Reuters) - Sexual violence against children in Haiti has surged in the last year and their bodies have been turned ...
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Haiti gang-rape horror as girl, 16, is drugged, beaten and 'raped relentlessly for a month in a warehouse' amid 1,000% increase in sexual violence against children on crime ...
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 ...