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The UN Hu­man Rights Of­fice has raised alarm over wors­en­ing vi­o­lence in Haiti, as gangs ex­pand their reach be­yond the cap­i­tal Port-au-Prince in­to cen­tral re­gions, car­ry­ing out killings, kid­nap­pings and sex­u­al vi­o­lence.

In a state­ment to­day, UN Hu­man Rights Chief Volk­er Türk said at least 2,680 peo­ple — in­clud­ing 54 chil­dren — were killed be­tween 1 Jan­u­ary and 30 May 2025. Near­ly 1,000 were in­jured and more than 300 kid­napped. A record 1.3 mil­lion peo­ple are now dis­placed.

Türk said, “Alarm­ing as they are, num­bers can­not ex­press the hor­rors Haitians are be­ing forced to en­dure on a dai­ly ba­sis.”