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

Two gangs in Haiti took over a radio station in April. They broadcasted propaganda and played hip-hop supportive of their ...

The United Nations Integrated office in Haiti (BINUH) says the human rights situation in the French-speaking Caribbean ...

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 ...

At least 1,520 people were killed and 609 injured in Haiti between April and June, in Port-au-Prince, according to the BINUH.

As gangs tighten control over Port-au-Prince and expand their grip on provincial towns, the UNDP and OAS have been actively ...

The incident adds to Haiti’s growing humanitarian crisis, with over a million people already displaced due to gang violence, ...

Fernandez Lazala writes that the situation is not new. He writes that for over 250 years, the majority of Haitians have struggled —or failed entirely— to obtain a legal ID. At the heart of the issue ...

William O’Neill, the U.N.’s independent human rights expert who raised concerns about the border after a recent visit to Haiti, said gangs that gain access to the important trading route ...

Human-rights groups are pushing back against a proposal by Haiti authorities to enlist members of a rogue force into the fight against a powerful gang alliance carrying out a deadly siege in three ...

He was 62. “Haiti has lost its most prominent human rights lawyer at a time of overwhelming violation of basic rights,” Concannon, the nonprofit’s executive director, said in a statement.

Haiti Haiti gangs’ expansion, human-rights violations, threaten whole Caribbean, UN warns By Jacqueline Charles July 11, 2025 4:59 PM ...