A chronic gang, economic and political crisis has led to a humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti, the country's UN envoy has said.
Weeks of violence and attacks on food aid warehouses have rocked the nation's food security, Helen La Lime told an (...)
Escalating gang violence has set off a crisis that is threatening "the very foundations of the rule of law" in Haiti, according to Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus, who told UN delegates in New York on Saturday that the authorities' efforts to (...)
With Haiti's highways increasingly in the grip of gangs, aid delivery by ship is becoming increasingly critical. Captain Madeleine Habib, a shipping officer working for the World Food Program in Haiti, spoke about her experiences ahead of World (...)
One year on from a devastating earthquake which struck Haiti, communities are rebuilding their lives, and aiming to be better prepared when future disasters strike.
A line of women carry rocks in the hands and on their heads as they descend to a (...)
On Aug. 14 2021 a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, destroying, or rendering uninhabitable tens of thousands of houses across three departments in the south of Haiti, including Plaisimond Milaure's home.
For the last year, she's been living in (...)
United Nations humanitarian agencies have started delivering aid directly to people in Haiti following a recent spike in violence between rival gangs which has fueled a worsening crisis across the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Vulnerable inhabitants of (...)
Bulgaria's UN Ambassador banged the gavel as President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for the first time on Monday with a vow to build on the "solid foundation" left by the outgoing head and his bureau to transform the world into "a (...)
At least 17 people from Haiti have died in a boat accident off the coast of The Bahamas, the government has said.
Bahamian PM Philip Davis said it is thought those on board were travelling from Haiti to Miami, Florida in the US.
Police in The (...)
Surging and deadly gang violence in the Haitian capital has contributed to runaway food insecurity for well over one million people there, the UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday.
In addition to being hit hard by the global food and fuel (...)
Over the last 10 years, the number of people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes and become displaced in their own countries, has more than doubled. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the increase in internally (...)
Rising gang crime in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince is limiting access to education and is preventing thousands of children from going to school. Since 2020, gang-related violence has led to school closures, and children have become easy prey for (...)
Because of the global hunger crisis, every single minute, one child is pushed into life-threatening, severe malnutrition.
That's the alarming message on Thursday from UN Children's Fund UNICEF, which issued the alert for 15 countries in crisis where (...)
Amid the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Haiti, discussions about the country's future governance remain deadlocked, UN Special Representative Helen La Lime said in a briefing to the Security Council on Thursday.
She called for greater (...)
War in Ukraine continues to cause mayhem and "destroy the lives of many", and it is everyone's responsibility to limit the global food, fuel and financial crisis" that it has sustained, the UN's top rights official told the Human Rights Council on (...)
Ever greater numbers of vulnerable people are risking their lives on dangerous migration routes in Latin America, forced to move by the global food security crisis that's been made worse by spiraling inflation linked to the war in Ukraine, the UN (...)
The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than 800% in the past two decades as the climate crisis also rapidly accelerated, new research shows.
The report, released Tuesday (...)
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated steadily rising global food and energy prices, undermining economic stability across the world, warned in a UN report launched on Monday.
The ripple effects of the Ukraine war have triggered price surges, (...)
Amid growing insecurity and gang violence in Haiti, the numbers of desperate people resorting to risky sea crossings has sharply increased. On Friday the UN called for regional governments to step up protection for refugees.
Speaking to journalists (...)
"When war is waged, people go hungry," Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Some 60 percent of the world's (...)
"When war is waged, people go hungry," Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Some 60 percent of the world's (...)
A surge in violence fuelled by heavily armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, prompted the UN rights chief on Tuesday to express her deep concern over its severe impact on human rights across the Caribbean nation.
"Armed violence has reached (...)
Clashes in Haiti between rival gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince, have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes, the UN Deputy Spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the regular daily press briefing, Farhan Haq said that according to the (...)
For the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has focused global attention on the impact of vaccines in fighting the virus. During World Immunization Week, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been raising awareness of the crucial role (...)
Samuel (not his real name) grew up near the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince, and has seen his childhood home descend into lawlessness and gang violence. Now a staff member with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in the country, he faces the daily (...)
New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, best know for the 1619 Project, which frames slavery as one of the core elements of the history of the United States, addressed the UN General Assembly during a commemoration of the transatlantic slave (...)
