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15/01/2025

Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens

Human Wrongs Watch

By the International Organization for Migration*

Geneva/ Port-au-Prince, 14 January 2024 More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

IOM team in Port-au-Prince conducts an assessment among displaced people to understand the needs, scale and complexity of the crisis, and inform distributions of essential items.
IOM team in Port-au-Prince conducts an assessment among displaced people to understand the needs, scale and complexity of the crisis, and inform distributions of essential items. Photo: IOM 2024/Antoine Lemonnier

The latest data reveals that 1,041,000 people, many displaced multiple times, are struggling amidst an intensifying humanitarian crisis. Children bear the greatest burden of displacement, making up over half of the displaced population. 

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