Academics-Led Patriotic Congress Launches with Diaspora Input to Address Haiti’s Crisis

Academics-led patriotic congress launches with diaspora input to address Haiti’s crisis

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Amid a prolonged crisis marked by institutional collapse, rampant gang violence and deteriorating public trust, Haitian academics from abroad have joined efforts with those in Haiti to launch a grassroots initiative to address the nation’s turmoil. Known as the Patriotic Congress for the Reorganization of Haiti (PCRH), the nonpartisan effort began its first online discussions on Saturday, May 31, convening researchers, professor…

Top UN advocate sounds alarm over sexual violence crisis in gang-ravaged Haiti

Haiti has been gripped by spiralling gang violence ever since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The subsequent unrest has displaced one million people, more than half of them children, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).