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UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Haiti

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell in the briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Haiti

Violence drives Haiti’s children into armed groups; up to half of all members are now children – UNICEF

Children are experiencing a ‘vicious cycle of suffering’ as violence continues to spike

UNICEF Representative Bruno Maes visited the displacement sites of Delmas 18, where more than 3,150 people, the majority of them women and children, were recently displaced due to a new wave of armed violence.

Violence sending shocks around Haiti’s collapsing health system

Armed groups in the capital have strangled supply chains, putting millions of children at risk of disease and malnutrition.

An image of mothers and children at La Paix University Hospital, where hundreds of mothers brought their children for screening and treatment of malnutrition.

Briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Haiti

Remarks by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

In the heart of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, escalating violence has become a grim reality. In less than two weeks, this violence has led to the displacement of 2,500 people, with most of them being women and children.

Armed violence deepening malnutrition crisis for children in Haiti

Deadly malnutrition in the country amplified by escalating insecurity, blocked roads, and a crumbling health system pushing children to ‘the brink’, UNICEF warns

A boy poses for a portrait during an interview with the beneficiaries of the clean water program run by UNICEF in Deye Morn, Jeremie, Haiti, Thursday, March 23, 2023.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the situation in Haiti

As violence and lawlessness in Haiti reaches a new and terrifying level, the resolve of the international community and local stakeholders to protect and support the Haitian people must be strengthened.

On 18 July 2022 in Les Cayes, Haiti, children play in the rubble of homes destroyed in the 2021 earthquake. The girl in blue lives nearby with her mother, Yolande Felix, and younger sister, Valentine.

UNICEF urges all parties to safeguard children amid latest unrest in Haiti

Statement attributable to Bruno Maes, UNICEF Representative in Haiti.

At least 170,000 children displaced amid escalating violence in Haiti

In less than two weeks, nearly 2,500 people, most of them women and children, have been newly displaced in capital Port-au-Prince.

Students washing hands in the handwashing device built by UNICEF.

Escalating violence threatens thousands of children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Nearly 200,000 people, half of whom are children, are now displaced across the country, with 130,000 in the capital alone.

Kidnappings of children and women spiking at alarming rates in Haiti - UNICEF

Close to 300 cases have been reported so far this year, nearly the total number registered for all of 2022, and three times more than 2021

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