This significantly hinders sexual violence survivors’ access to crucial healthcare services. Poverty exacerbates the situation, with over 64 percent of Haiti’s population of 11.7 million ...

In Haiti, under policing is allowing abuses ... The illegally imported guns also are being used to commit sexual violence, the activists said. Cartel drones ‘pose threat’ to US service members ...

OCHA said the shocking death of a six-year-old girl on 3 May after she was brutally raped in a temporary displacement site in Port-au-Prince was a stark reminder of the extreme dangers faced by ...

Michael Geilenfeld, 73, was convicted of sexually abusing multiple children over two decades at St. Joseph's Home for Boys, ...

In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence ...

As Haiti grapples with surging violence and displacement, the United Nations and its humanitarian partners are stepping up ...

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 2025 (IPS) - In 2025, the humanitarian crisis in Haiti has grown increasingly dire amid the ongoing gang wars. With rates of displacement, child recruitment, food insecurity, ...

Despite efforts by Haiti’s national police and a U.N ... In makeshift camps, he said, hunger and sexual violence are widespread and “for many it’s a matter of survival.” ...