NEW YORK —Haiti’s human rights crisis is spiraling out of control, driven by entrenched elite corruption, a fractured ...

We welcome the reports of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Independent Expert on Haiti. Haiti’s crisis has reached catastrophic levels, with criminal groups carrying out large ...

In October 2023, the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to address the dire humanitarian crisis and insecurity in Haiti. Council ...

Human Rights Watch offers up recommendations to the UN on what a new U.N. peacekeeping mission for Haiti should look like, be mandated to do ...

The crisis situation in Haiti continues to escalate. Last week, a human rights group in the country released figures showing that kidnappings in the country had dramatically increased in the first ...

"We're talking about 2,500, maybe 3,000 well-trained and equipped international police. It's doable," William O'Neill, the U.N. High Commissioner's Designated Expert on Human Rights in Haiti, told ...

In a briefing paper, Human Rights Watch has also offered guidance on what a newly re-envisioned U.N. mission in Haiti should look like. The group’s recommendations don’t differ that much from ...

Citing the U.N.’s Integrated Office in Haiti, Human Rights Watch says more than 2,000 people have been killed in Haiti by criminal groups between January and June of this year, a 125% increase ...

Haiti's crisis deepens as foreign troops struggle to curb violence© Top image credit: Kenyan police officers disembark from a plane while arriving as part of a peace-keeping mission to tackle ...

Human Rights Day — Dec. 10 — is an opportunity to honor the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), signed in 1948. This historic document laid out the most basic ...

The Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights (CARDH) announced on Thursday that they would temporarily suspend their operations in Haiti due to escalating threats against its staff. CARDH has ...

As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the UDHR, Haiti is facing a catastrophic human rights situation. It is in a serious political and security crisis.