News Monitor
The recent trends in Haiti concerning sexual violence against children, particularly girls, are deeply alarming with a more than 1000% increase in 2024 compared to 2023 according to UN figures.
More than 760,000 children are experiencing emergency food insecurity (IPC Phase 4), characterised by acute malnutrition and a heightened risk of hunger-related death. This is a 21% spike since March.
These latest figures show a 22% rise in the number of IDPs since June, highlighting the worsening situation. Gang violence has forced more than 110,000 people to flee home in the past seven months.
Approximately 5.4 million people struggle to feed themselves and their families every day. But humanitarian agencies are short of $230 million to implement programmes until the end of the year.
Latest figures documented by the UN Human Rights Office indicate that at least 3,661 people have been killed since January this year, maintaining the high levels of violence seen in 2023.
Over the past school year, more than 900 schools closed, affecting about 200,000 childrenâs access to education. Many of these schools will likely remain closed as they are being used as shelters.
Since February 2024, escalating violence and increased population displacements have significantly reduced agricultural production and disrupted markets, leaving half of Haitiâs population in acute hunger.
The blockage of the main drainage systems by trash is impeding the recession of water levels, while there are growing concerns about increasing water-borne diseases and social tensions.
Nearly half of Haitiâs population suffers from acute hunger, a situation worsened by gangs controlling key transport routes, including up to 90% of the capital.
More than 112,000 people live in 96 informal sites in Port-au-Prince. Many of these sites lack water supplies and sanitation facilities, resulting in increasing risk of waterborne diseases.
More than 112,000 people live in 96 informal sites in Port-au-Prince. Many of these sites lack water supplies and sanitation facilities, resulting in increasing risk of waterborne diseases.
Save the Children says an average of five children a week have been killed or injured by armed violence in Haiti in the first half of 2024. However, the true number is likely to be much higher.
Haitiâs multifaceted humanitarian emergency needs urgent attention and strategies beyond emergency, three senior UN and EU officials said today as they wrapped up a four-day visit to the country.
More than 300,000 children are now internally displaced in the country, a 60 per cent increase since March, rendering them more vulnerable to violence and disrupting their access to services.
An estimated 578,000 people are displaced within the country, forced to abandon their homes and risking death, rape, kidnapping, and unsafe, overcrowded living conditions, says UNFPA.
The health system in Port-au-Prince remains severely affected by ongoing violence. In May, 30 hospitals and health centers were closed, and insecurity still hinders access to health.
Escalating gang violence in Haiti have forced a record 578,074 internal displacements in 2024, making it the country with the largest number of displacements due to crime-related violence.
Nearly 580,000 people are internally displaced. In addition to the displacement in and around Port-au-Prince, the violence and siege imposed by armed groups have pushed more people to nearby provinces.