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Mar 30, 2025
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The UN rights chief on Friday said that the situation in Haiti was worsening as armed gangs seize territory, team up and increasingly turn their violence on the population.
"The human rights situation in Haiti has reached yet another crisis point," Volker Turk said, adding that the violence and insecurity had now "dramatically worsened".
Presenting his annual report on the situation in Haiti, Turk told the UN Human Rights Council that gangs were gaining ground in the c...
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