Haiti Faces Escalating Humanitarian Crisis

“Eye-popping numbers” from Haiti reveal that more than a million people are now internally displaced, a UN spokesperson commented on the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation.

The situation in Haiti has deteriorated sharply over the past year, with the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) tripling since December 2023. Of the more than one million displaced, half are children. “In the capital alone, displacement has nearly doubled rising by 87 percent,” Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told on 14th January in New York City.