Towards a CELAC Summit on Haiti bringing together 33 countries
Haiti Libre Decembar 2, 2024, Port au Price (Haiti Libre): The President of the Republic of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, announced that she would convene a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to seek an urgent and solidarity-based solution to the crisis in Haiti.
The World Council of Churches calls for prayer for the Haitian people
Port au Prince (Haiti Libre): The Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) called all member churches to prayer and Christian solidarity with the people of Haiti.
Haiti: More than 100 bandits killed in 3 days
Port au Prince (Haiti Libre): At least 108 gang members have been killed in Haiti in three days, reports the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH), a figure that constitutes the latest assessment of the recent upsurge in violence in Haiti, where armed gangs have stepped up attacks and attempted Tuesday to invade one of the capital’s upscale neighborhoods, Pétion-Ville.
Haiti: Humanitarian flights resume
Port au Prince (Haiti Libre): The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has resolved regulatory issues and will resume flights on Wednesday, November 20. UNHAS provides passenger and light cargo transportation in Haiti for the entire humanitarian community, including local and international NGOs and UN entities.
A group of Haitian students and teachers soon in Cuba
Port au Prince (Haiti Libre): The Communication Unit of the State University of Haiti (UEH) informs that a group of UEH students and their professors, most of them members of the Laboratory LAngages, DIScours, REPrésentations (LADIREP), will travel to Havana (Cuba) as part of an international intensive course organized by the research program «CUBAYITI» in the premises of the Alliance française de la Havane.
Haiti and Israel: in the global index of impunity for the murder of journalists
Port au Prince (Haiti Libre): Haiti and Israel are the countries most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) 2024 Global Impunity Index.
Haiti: Gangs recruit thousands of young minors
Port au Prince (HaitiLibre): «Hundreds, if not thousands, of children in Haiti, driven by hunger and poverty, have in recent months joined criminal groups, where they are forced into illegal activities and face abuse,» Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
More than 700,000 Haitians have fled their homes
Port au Prince (HaitiLibre): More than 700,000 people, more than half of them children, have fled their homes, driven out by gang violence according to a new report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Crisis: One in 5 Haitian children on the brink of famine
Port au Prince (HaitiLibre): The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis conducted by the National Food Security Coordination (CNSA), the leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises, reveals that approximately 2 million children (nearly 50% of all children in Haiti) are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse.
Kenyan Commander announces arrival of contingents from 3 other countries
Puerro Príncipe (HaitiLibre): Godfrey Otunge, the Kenyan Commander of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMSS) shared the achievements and challenges of the MMSS while stressing the need to establish forward operating bases that will play a key role in maintaining the already pacified and recaptured areas of gangs as well as government infrastructure.
