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The United Nations warned on Friday that intensifying gang violence in Haiti not only threatens national stability but could also destabilize the wider Caribbean region, following a devastating surge in killings, abductions, and forced displacement across the country. In the new report published Friday, the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and the UN Human [...]

A US federal judge in the Eastern District of New York on Monday blocked an attempt by President Donald Trump’s administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians five months earlier than scheduled. The court decision affects an estimated 521,000 Haitians who have received TPS protections allowing them to live and work legally in [...]

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged the international community to address escalating violence and human rights abuses in Haiti, noting that conditions have been steadily deteriorating one year after the deployment of the first personnel under the UN-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission. In light of the inability of the Haitian National Police (HNP) to [...]

The UN verified 41,370 grave violations committed against children globally in 2024 in its annual report on children and armed conflict, released Thursday. The number, which includes 11,967 children killed or maimed, represents the highest number of grave violations against children recorded by the UN since it began monitoring. The Annual Report of the Secretary-General on [...]

United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Türk expressed alarm over escalating violence in Haiti on Friday, as gangs expand territory and continue to commit extrajudicial homicides, kidnappings and rapes. Türk stated: Alarming as they are, numbers cannot express the horrors Haitians are being forced to endure on a daily basis. I am horrified by the [...]

US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday implementing a nearly full travel ban on nationals from a dozen countries, severely restricting potential entry into the United States. The proclamation is based on an executive order issued on Trump’s first day in office that laid the foundation for the administration to enact extensive immigration controls. [...]

During a press conference Tuesday, the UN World Food Program (WFP) raised concerns about the humanitarian situation worsening in Haiti with the coming hurricane season. The WFP said that political instability, violence and food shortages in the country may be escalated by a single storm. Following a visit to Haiti, WFP regional director in Latin America [...]

A federal judge on Friday prevented US President Donald Trump’s administration from revoking temporary protected status for 5,000 Venezuelans—halting the invalidation of work permits and other residency documents. San Francisco US District Judge Edward Chen found that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem potentially exceeded her legal authority when trying to invalidate Temporary Protection Status (TPS) [...]

The US Supreme Court granted an application for stay made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, allowing for the revocation of status for around 500,000 migrants who came through the parole program for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan nationals. Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson and Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented on several grounds, [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday warned that the abrupt suspension of US foreign aid has put human rights and millions of lives at risk globally by halting critical programs such as the provision of essential health care, food security and humanitarian support for people in extremely vulnerable situations globally, including women, girls, survivors of sexual violence, [...]