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UNICEF warns children as young as 9 are coerced into gang roles amid Haiti’s crisis; reintegration efforts face funding gaps despite government commitment.
- The recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepened across the country, according to a UNICEF report.
- The United Nations estimates that 30% to 50% of members of armed groups are children, some as young as 9 years old, with boys acting as spies and girls facing sexual violence.
- More than 60% of Haiti's population lives on less than $4 a day, and hundreds of thousands are starving or nearing starvation, creating conditions where families may give up children to armed groups.
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‘Heartbreaking’: Child recruitment by Haitian gangs triples, U.N. report says
The surge reflects the growing reliance by criminal gangs on the exploitation of children amid the ongoing violence, UNICEF said Thursday. It’s a situation that the U.N. and members of the Security Council are increasingly calling on Haitian authorities to address..
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Independent EspañolBy DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN (AP) — The recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year, as poverty and violence deepen in the troubled Caribbean country, according to a new UNICEF report published on Thursday. The increase occurs while gang violence displaces a record 1.4 million people across Haiti—more than half of them children, who, according to experts, are exposed and vulnerable. “The magnitude of the increase is definitely …
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UNICEF warns that child recruitment by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year
UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country.
The number of children recruited and used by armed groups in Haiti increased by 200 per cent in 2025, a threefold increase in one year, alerted the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), on the occasion of Red Hand Day on 12 February each year. This outbreak is part of a context of persistent violence, mass displacement – more than 1.4 million people, including a majority of children – and extreme poverty, which fuel the expansion of armed gro…
UNICEF warns that child recruitment by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year – The Indian Awaaz
Last Updated on February 13, 2026 9:06 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ WEB DESK A new UNICEF report released yesterday says the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepened across the troubled Caribbean country. The surge comes as gang violence displaces a record 1.4 million people across Haiti, more than half of them children, whom experts say are left exposed and vulnerable. UNICEF’s representative in …
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