Nearly 60% of the population lives below the poverty line. In recent months, Haiti has descended into a critical state of violence and chaos. More than one million children are trapped in areas ...
U.S. aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children in Haiti as violence spirals and more young people are recruited by armed gangs, the U.N. children's agency warned on ...
Human rights and humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm about an increase in sexual violence against children, their presence in gangs, and the risks to their education and future ...
Yet for Haiti’s children — the millions caught in the crossfire, no longer able to attend school, or pushed to join the armed gangs amid crippling poverty — the situation is especially dire.
Missionaries provide literacy programs, microcredit initiatives, and agricultural training to fight poverty and uplift rural ...
Despite a slight decrease in overall extreme poverty in Haiti, the number of poor remains extremely high ... Special attention should be given to vulnerable groups such as women and children and to ...
GENEVA - U.S. aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children ... "The impact in Haiti, a country that is so stricken by conflict and violence and poverty, is extreme ...
[Photo, AFP] Sexual violence against children in violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold last year ... extreme violence linked to criminal gangs, poverty and other challenges.
I visited Haiti as a child. Over the years ... Environmental problems can be caused by too much consumption or by poverty. But in both cases, technology usually has a solution.
US Aid Cuts Having Dire Impact on Haiti's Children, Says UNICEF By Olivia Le ... a country that is so stricken by conflict and violence and poverty, is extreme and it's immediate." ...
More than a million people, over half of them children, are displaced within Haiti due to ongoing violence, according to U.N. data. Extreme poverty has also pushed children into gangs, with up to ...