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10 September 2024

UNICEF Launches New Initiative to Raise Awareness and Protect Children from Armed Groups Recruitment Through Music and Art

LEOGANE (Haiti) – 9 September 2024 – UNICEF today launched an innovative initiative titled “Gita pa m lan sonnen pou lapè” or "My Guitar Sounds for Peace" to raise awareness about the dangers of armed recruitment and to prevent children from being enrolled in armed groups through art and music. Led by UNICEF Natio...

Humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti requires urgent international action, aid officials say

PORT AU PRINCE/NEW YORK 15 July 2024 – Haiti’s multifaceted humanitarian emergency needs urgent attention and strategies beyond emergency, three senior UN officials said today as they wrapped up a four-day visit to the country. Representatives from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),...

Nadege and her children's struggle for survival.

Léogâne, Haiti –Nadege, a 37-year-old mother of four, appears burdened by the weight of the world. Her distressed gaze speaks volumes. After walking for hours, she and her children reached Léogâne, seeking refuge in one of the makeshift sites established in the town. They arrived with no resources or shelter. The ...

One child displaced every minute in Haiti as armed violence persists – UNICEF

PORT-AU-PRINCE/NEW YORK, 2 JULY 2024 – The number of internally displaced children in Haiti has increased by an estimated 60 per cent since March – the equivalent of one child every minute – a result of ongoing violence caused by armed groups. According to latest estimates, almost 600,000 people – over half o...

Dodging bullets

Armed groups in Port-au-Prince and the Artibonite region are terrorizing entire communities. As streets, school and playgrounds have been turned into battlefields, many families have had no choice but to leave everything behind. Solona, 14 years old. UNICEF/UNI601140/Le Lijour “Shootings, that’s why I left. Rapes....

Violence sending shocks around Haiti’s collapsing health system

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 21 May 2024 – An alarming six out of ten hospitals in Haiti are barely operational as recent escalating violence in Port-Au-Prince has continued to deprive children of critical health supplies and medicine, UNICEF warned today. Every hospital in the country has reported difficulties in acquiring an...

UNICEF ensures access to safe drinking water for 30,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Port-au-Prince amidst crises.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 8 May 2024 –  Since the coordinated attacks that paralyzed the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, UNICEF, alongside the National Directorate for Water and Sanitation (DINEPA) and partners, has provided about 2,66 million liters of safe drinking water to over 30,000 displaced children and fam...

Armed violence deepening malnutrition crisis for children in Haiti

PORT AU PRINCE/NEW YORK, 26 March 2024 - The alarming surge in armed violence in areas of Haiti is creating heightened risk of furthering a malnutrition crisis in the country, UNICEF warned today. The recent findings from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis indicate an alarming 19 per ...

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

NEW YORK, 6 March 2024 – “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. “Haiti has been gripped by consecutive years of horrific violence, which in the l...

13 February 2024

Children killed while fleeing violence in areas controlled by armed groups in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 13 February 2024 – UNICEF has received reports that at least two children were fatally shot while fleeing violence in areas controlled by armed groups in downtown Port-au-Prince over the past weekend. Many more children are reported to be injured. UNICEF, along with its United Nations partners, is ...

08 February 2024

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

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 8 February 2024 – UNICEF is deeply concerned by recent reports highlighting the violence faced and witnessed by children during the current socio-political events in Haiti. We urge all stakeholders to ensure that children are protected, regardless of their situation. Protecting children should be t...

02 February 2024

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

PORT-AU-PRINCE/NEW YORK, January 29, 2024 –The surge in armed violence across Haiti has triggered a profound humanitarian crisis, with the number of internally displaced children soaring to 170,000. This alarming figure represents a twofold increase from last year, highlighting the rapidly deteriorating situa...