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30/03/2025

Haiti Reaches ‘Yet Another Crisis Point’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The UN human rights chief sounded the alarm on Friday over the rapidly deteriorating situation in Haiti, calling it a “catastrophe” fuelled by gang violence, widespread impunity and a political process that is hanging by a thread.

Displaced Haitians building a makeshift home inside a sports stadium.
UN Photo/Sophia Paris |mDisplaced Haitians building a makeshift home inside a sports stadium.

Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that the country had reached “yet another crisis point,” with heavily armed gangs expanding their control, public institutions in ruins and a humanitarian emergency deepening by the day.

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