Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now. Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International For over a year, the ...
Children in Haiti face sexual violence, other forms of abuse, and recruitment into local gangs, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Feb. 12. The report states that armed gangs ...
The organization found that 30% to 50% of gang members are now children, with many coerced into joining due to hunger or fear ...
Haiti is being transformed into one of the world’s largest concentration camps, its people confronting a slow genocide from ...
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Warning: Some details of this report may be disturbing. A new Amnesty International report shows the harrowing effect gang violence has had on children in Haiti. Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent ...
The halting of U.S. aid has also compounded the already dire humanitarian crisis in Haiti, hitting a program that provides ...
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One of 51 children interviewed by researchers said a gang killed people in front of him and asked him to burn their bodies.
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 ...
“The international security mission in Haiti was already facing very great odds; it was already very short staffed. With this withdrawal of aid, it will make their job there even harder,” said ...