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Haitian reporter Jean Samuel Mentor didn’t always want a career in journalism. Initially, he aspired to pursue medicine, but getting a medical degree in Haiti was prohibitively expensive.  Mentor considered alternative paths as a result, and enrolled in journalism school. He did so despite resistance from family members who felt that journalism was both risky and unprofitable.

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Haiti is administratively divided into 10 departments, which are subdivided into districts, each of which has communes. The communes are in turn divided into community sections, and these are made up of neighborhoods. According to Haitian and international humanitarian and human rights organizations working in Haiti, this administrative structure may vary and there can be additional or different subdivisions in some places, for example in densely populated or large communes, where residents

The 98-page report, “Living a Nightmare: Haiti Needs an Urgent Rights-Based Response to Escalating Crisis,” documents abuses committed by criminal groups and state inaction in four metropolitan Port-au-Prince communes – Cabaret, Cité Soleil, Croix-des-Bouquets, and Port-au-Prince itself – between January and April 2023. In Haiti, the state is nearly absent, impunity reigns, and nearly half the population is acutely food insecure. Human Rights Watch also assessed the humanitarian, politi...

‘We can't find support’: Three women’s stories of repeated rape by Haitian gangs - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world

Between April 2022 and April 2023, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights counted 9 massacres perpetrated in the departments of Artibonite and West. In 6 of these documented massacres, 734 people were murdered...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Suspected gang members ambushed a group of policemen, set their armoured vehicle on fire and killed one officer in the latest attack against Haiti’s National Police force,...

Police were searching for bandits late Thursday who killed an officer and set his body on fire during an ambush the day prior by armed gangs in Source Matelas

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Suspected gang members ambushed a group of policemen, set their armoured vehicle on fire and killed one officer in the latest attack against Haitis National Police force, authorities said Thursday. World News | Official: Suspected Gang Members Kill Haitian Policeman Amid Spike in Violence.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Suspected gang members ambushed a group of policemen, set their armored vehicle on fire and killed one officer in the lat...