Haiti: millions of children in precarious situations
Human Rights organizations in Haiti expressed their concern about the alarming and catastrophic situation in which more than one million children find themselves due to the already growing multidimensional crisis that has been affecting the country for years. teleSUR
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00:00 In Haiti, human rights organizations describe as catastrophic the children's situation and warn that millions of kids are directly impacted by the economic, political, and social crisis affecting the country.
00:10 The Sanmi Timon Foundation regretted the situation of this sector of society in the midst of increasing food and health conditions.
00:17 According to local media, in 2023, an estimated 207,000 children were leaving the domestic service in Haiti,
00:23 and 113,000 were displaced due to gang violence, and 500 were unaccompanied perpetrated at the Haitian-Dominican border.
00:31 In view of the situation, the United Nations Children's Fund called on the authorities to guarantee the safety of children in Haiti where violence continues to be rampant.