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

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 ...

In October 2023, the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to address the dire humanitarian crisis and insecurity in Haiti. Council ...

A group of Democratic senators are calling out the Trump administration on what they call its "increasingly inconsistent" ...

Human Rights Watch offers up recommendations to the UN on what a new U.N. peacekeeping mission for Haiti should look like, be mandated to do ...

The crisis situation in Haiti continues to escalate. Last week, a human rights group in the country released figures showing that kidnappings in the country had dramatically increased in the first ...

U.N. Independent Expert on the Human Rights Situation in Haiti William O’Neill said in a press statement last week that he saw in Haiti “the pain and despair of an entire population,” and ...

This story is part of a series, "Haiti: The Forgotten Crisis." ... The movement has committed hundreds of murders since then, according to the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.N. human rights expert warned on Friday that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission targeting criminals in the troubled Caribbean country ...

In a briefing paper, Human Rights Watch has also offered guidance on what a newly re-envisioned U.N. mission in Haiti should look like. The group’s recommendations don’t differ that much from ...

Recent arrest triggers debate On Monday, Human Rights Watch published a new 98-page report, “ Living a Nightmare: Haiti Needs an Urgent Rights-Based Response to Escalating Crisis.” ...

Human Rights Day — Dec. 10 — is an opportunity to honor the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), signed in 1948. This historic document laid out the most basic ...