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Haiti gang violence claims 5,000 lives in less than a year, UN report
Stabroek News
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July 11, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Almost 5,000 people have been killed in Haiti since October 2024, as gang violence has escalated, particularly around the capital Port-au-Prince, according to a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report...
A Florida brunch aims to help Haiti’s last childhood cancer Hospital
Haitian Times
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July 11, 2025
Overview: The Haitian Foundation Against Childhood Cancer (FHACI) is hosting a fundraising brunch on July 13 to support Saint-Damien Pediatric Hospital, Haiti’s only pediatric oncology unit still operating. The Tabarre-based hospital provides free...
The spread of gang violence is a major risk for Haiti and the Caribbean sub-region (UN report)
Haiti Libre
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Haiti - FLASH : The spread of gang violence is a major risk for Haiti and the Caribbean sub-region (UN report) 11/07/2025 09:05:34 Between October 1st, 2024, and June 30, 2025, at least 1,018 people were killed, 213 others injured, and 620...
More than 3,000 people killed in Haiti violence so far this year: UN
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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More than 3,000 people have died amid escalating gang violence in Haiti since the beginning of the year, the United Nations said Friday. "So far this year, from the first of January to June 30, at least 3,141 people were killed across Haiti,"...
With expired work permits, couple who fled Haiti leans on Texas church that brought them here
NBC News
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July 11, 2025
The couple are surviving off savings and the support of their small rural church community, some members of whom voted for President Donald Trump. The same church helped connect them to an immigration attorney as they consider seeking asylum....
Haiti: Setback for LGBT+ rights in the Caribbean
Erasing 76 Crimes
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July 10, 2025
New penal code allows anti-LGBT+ discrimination without penalty Haiti has adopted a new penal code that strips LGBT+ people of protections against discrimination that they would have enjoyed under the previous draft of the law. Adoption of the new...
Haiti - Politic : CPT President asks PM for explanations
Haiti Libre
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July 10, 2025
Haiti - Politic : CPT President asks PM for explanations 10/07/2025 09:50:49 On Wednesday, July 9, 2025, Fritz Alphonse Jean, the President pro tempore of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Alix...
Spring Valley community leaders, Rep. Lawler, oppose TPS revocation and Haiti travel ban
News 12 Westchester - New York
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Rep. Mike Lawler, alongside many of the leaders in the Spring Valley community, voiced their opposition Thursday afternoon to temporary protection status, also known as TPS, being revoked for Haitian refugees, as well as Haiti being on the travel...
CDB & CROSQ launch EU-funded Project to strengthen quality infrastructure in Haiti
Searchlight
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July 11, 2025
SOME OF THE STAKEHOLDERS at the launch of the Capacity Building For Strengthening Quality Infrastructure In Haiti Project. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ), in partnership with...
Escalating Gang Violence in Haiti Threatens to Override State Control
Inter Press Service
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July 10, 2025
Crime & Justice, Economy & Trade, Gender Violence, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Latin America & the Caribbean, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations Pierre Ericq Pierre, Permanent Representative of Haiti to the...
CARICOM leaders pledge greater support for Haiti
Radio Jamaica
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July 10, 2025
After days of high-level talks, CARICOM leaders have signalled a stronger commitment to help Haiti stabilise and rebuild. It comes as gang violence and political instability continue to rattle the French-speaking CARICOM country. Haiti remains in...
Farmers in Haiti’s Maniche drive rice production revival aiming to restore battered agriculture sector
Haitian Times
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July 10, 2025
Overview: In Maniche, a commune in southern Haiti, rice production is rebounding after years of decline linked to trade policies imposed by international financial institutions, the influx of imports— particularly subsidized rice from the United...
UN appoints new envoy to Haiti amid calls for a more aggressive international response
Haitian Times
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July 10, 2025
Overview: Carlos Ruiz Massieu, a seasoned Mexican diplomat, was appointed July 2 as head of the United Nations diplomatic mission in Haiti amid a worsening multidimensional crisis. Tasked with leading political and humanitarian efforts, his...
Argentina, Haiti, Lebanon, 11 others send new envoys to Washington
The Washington Diplomat
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July 10, 2025
The latest crop of 14 new ambassadors in Washington includes diplomats from two former Soviet republics, two Caribbean nations, three African countries and three Arab ones. The biggest of these 14 countries by size is Argentina, the world’s...
CARICOM President pleads for Haiti
Haiti Libre
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Haiti - Politic : CARICOM President pleads for Haiti 10/07/2025 09:36:15 On July 8, as part of the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica and...
Haiti’s women drive economic revival at HAIFEX entrepreneurship fair
Haitian Times
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July 9, 2025
Overview: Held in Pétion-Ville on July 5–6, 2025, the inaugural HAIFEX Women’s Entrepreneurship Fair showcased nearly 70 Haitian women entrepreneurs blending tradition and innovation. From karabela garments and vèvè-inspired accessories to spice...
Like Trump, Haiti's gangs are determined to burn down Haitians' dignity
WLRN - Florida
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COMMENTARY The gang burning of one of Haiti's most iconic landmarks is more brazen destruction not just of the country — but of Haitians' self-esteem, which President Trump has also assailed. In the wake of Haiti’s apocalyptic earthquake in 2010,...
Haiti condemns arson attack on iconic Hotel Oloffson
Dominican Today
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July 9, 2025
Haiti.- The Haitian government has condemned the destruction of the iconic Hotel Oloffson as an “intolerable act” after armed gangs set it ablaze over the weekend. The hotel, a historic landmark in Port-au-Prince known for its cultural and...
Opinion: The St. Louis nonprofit that's saving young lives in Haiti
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri
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Candace O’Connorand Patricia Wolff Have you ever seen a toddler starve to death? Deprived of food, a small child loses weight and becomes emaciated or grotesquely bloated. Their immune system weakens and they fall prey to a host of diseases. Their...
Haiti calls for more support
Jamaica Observer
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July 9, 2025
Laurent Saint-Cyr (right), an advisor of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, addressing journalists at a media briefing marking the end of the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at...