More than 16,000 killed in Haiti violence since 2022: UN | International

GENEVA, Oct 2, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - More than 16,000 people have been killed in armed violence in Haiti since the start of 2022, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that "the worst may be yet to come". "The human rights situation in Haiti has reached a boiling point", with abuses and violence having escalated and intensified since March, UN rights chief Volker Turk said. The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti has long suffered at the hands of violent criminal gangs that commit murders, rapes, looting, and kidnappings against a backdrop of chronic political instability. "More than 16,000 people have been killed and some 7,000 people injured in armed violence since January 1, 2022, when we began our monitoring on...