Since 2022, Haiti’s gang violence has left over 16,000 dead and displaced 1.3 million, half of them children. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says as many as 500,000 illegal guns are in circulation, most held by gangs controlling 90% of the capital and expanding their grip on several provincial towns. Despite last year’s Kenya-led multinational mission (MSS) deployment, violence has escalated, prompting the Security Council to approve a new 5,500-member anti-gang force a...
