Nearly 300 women and children have been kidnapped in Haiti this year, UNICEF reports

Gangs control about 80% of Port-au-Prince, the capital, and violent crimes such as rapes, kidnappings for ransom, armed robberies, and carjackings are daily.

Haiti is suffering from fighting between gangs, which, according to UN estimates, control 80 percent of the capital Port-au-Prince and terrorize the population with brutal - including sexual - violence.

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Kidnappings of women, children spiking in Haiti where a US nurse, daughter remain captive

As a kidnapped American nurse and her child marked their 11th day in captivity in Haiti on Monday, the United Nations’ leading child-welfare agency says it is seeing an alarming spike in the abductions of women and children in the…

Kidnappings of women, children spiking in Haiti where a US nurse, daughter remain captive

As a kidnapped American nurse and her child marked their 11th day in captivity in Haiti on Monday, the United Nations’ leading child-welfare agency says it is seeing an alarming

‘Shocking’ Rise in Kidnappings of Women and Children in Haiti, Families Pressured into Ransom

A record number of women and children are being killed, kidnapped and raped amid Haiti's human rights crisis