The nine-year-old boys wearing matching knapsacks walk down the street in the morning light, but they are not going to school. In their hands are loaded guns, and the boys know how to use them. One ...

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's gang-controlled capital, there's an orphanage taking in the most at-risk kids. It's run by ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gangs in Haiti are recruiting children at unprecedented levels, with the number of minors targeted soaring by 70% in the past year, according to a report released Monday ...

A new UNICEF Child Alert highlights an unprecedented displacement crisis in Haiti as violence and collapsing services push children to the brink. Without an immediate injection of resources, UNICEF ...

The United Nations on Thursday added Haiti’s powerful gang alliance "Viv Ansanm" to its list of groups violating children’s rights in conflicts. The coalition, accused of abuses, was named in a UN ...

A report published by Amnesty International this week shows the grave impact that gang violence has had on children in Haiti since the assassination of the president in 2021. The percentage of gang ...

St. Damien's Children's Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is among several facilities in the Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs–Haiti network that has closed its doors until the “unconditional release” of ...

Meanwhile, with more than 1,600 schools directly affected by the violence – including 1,080 that were closed this year either because of armed groups or because they were taken over by those fleeing ...

Currently, between 30% to 50% of all gang members in the violence-wracked country are children, according to the U.N. “This is a very concerning trend,” said Geeta Narayan, UNICEF’s representative in ...