Nearly 1.3 million Haitians have been forcibly displaced due to escalating gang violence, marking a 24% increase since December 2024 and the largest displacement crisis in Haiti’s history. While Port-au-Prince remains the epicenter, gang activity has spread to other regions, forcing 147,000 people in the Centre department and 92,000 in Artibonite to flee their homes. […]

‘Nothing is more urgent than restoring Colombians’ security,’ Bogota Mayor Galan said. On Tuesday, Cali Security Secretary Jairo Garcia confirmed that three bomb explosions targeting police stations in the city left at least two people dead and 36 wounded, including three minors. RELATED: Colombian Social and Grassroots Organizations Call for National Mobilization to Support Popular […]

Trump deploys 2,000 troops to LA amid anti-ICE protests. Governor Newsom calls it a political stunt: “They want a spectacle. Don’t give them one.”

Five people have been killed in an attack on a humanitarian aid convoy in Sudan, the United Nations confirmed on Tuesday. The attack happened on Monday night, near the town of El Koma in North Darfur province, as the convoy was trying to reach El Fasher city. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Stephane Dujarric, the […]

The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) has denounced the horrific conditions and degrading treatment in Haiti’s police stations and sub-stations, which have been illegally converted into detention centers. Between April and May 2025, RNDDH monitored seven police stations and three sub-stations in Ouest Department, revealing severe overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and malnutrition. Cells originally designed […]

Violent clashes between two of Libya’s most powerful armed factions—the Stability Support Apparatus (SSA) and the 444th Brigade—turned Tripoli into a war zone once again, following the assassination of militia commander Abdul Ghani al-Kikli (“Ghaniwa”). Within hours of the attack, Tripoli’s Abu Salim and Salah Eddin neighborhoods were consumed by heavy gunfire, RPG attacks, and […]

A new wave of sectarian violence has struck Syria, with extremist factions affiliated with Ahmad al-Sharaa’s self-proclaimed government carrying out massacres in the Alawite-majority coastal region of Latakia. Latest Incident in Ain al-Sharqiyah On May 10, militants attacked the village of Ain al-Sharqiyah, near Jableh, killing at least nine civilians, including a 13-year-old child. Witnesses […]

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Friday the designation of Gran Grif and Viv Ansanm, two notorious Haitian gangs, as transnational terrorist organizations under the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)’s Specially Designated Nationals list. The declaration grants Washington the authority to detain suspected Haitian gang members operating within the U.S. and transfer them to […]

During the first quarter of 2025, the human rights situation in Haiti remained extremely worrying, marked by mass crimes, kidnappings, and sexual violence. In its quarterly report on the human rights situation in Haiti (January-March 2025), the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) revealed that between January 1st and March 31, 2025, at least […]

At least 35 suspected members of armed gangs belonging to the “Vivre Ensemble” (Living Together) coalition were killed and 40 others wounded during violent clashes with Haiti’s National Police (PNH) in Pacot, a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to a report by the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH). RNDDH Executive […]