Human Rights

A siege of the Nan Brooklyn neighborhood of Cité Soleil that began in early 2023 culminated in a massacre that

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict included Haiti for the first time in 2023, documenting

At least three Haitian journalists were killed in the first five months of 2023 alone, according to the Inter-American Commission

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visited Haiti in February 2023 and emerged with an assessment that he

Human rights organizations documented 2022 as one of the worst years on record for kidnappings in Haiti, with the National

Multiple Haitian journalists were killed or attacked in 2022, with gangs specifically targeting reporters whose coverage of criminal activities made

Haiti’s new criminal procedure code officially entered force in mid-2022, alongside the new penal code, bringing a comprehensive overhaul of

A new Haitian penal code came into force in June 2022, representing the most comprehensive reform of the country’s criminal

Haiti’s LGBTQ+ community faced intensified threats and violence in 2022 as the security crisis created new vulnerabilities and some armed

United Nations and human rights organizations documented an alarming escalation in the use of sexual violence by Haitian gang networks