In Haiti, Gangs Detonate Cases of Sexual Violence

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More than 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is in the hands of armed groups. Since 2022, as they spread their grip on the city, sexual violence has skyrocketed. Gangs no longer spare any age and use rape to terrorize and subjugate entire neighbourhoods.

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Since 2021, sexual and gender-based violence has increased in Haiti and is being used "systematically to terrorize the population, with a disproportionate impact on women and girls," according to a report by the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which highlighted that the number of cases treated at one of its clinics has tripled. In a new report, titled Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Port-au-Prince, MSF compiled data …