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Sexual violence against children soars in Haiti: UN

Residents displaced by gang attacks receive assistance from the Civil Protection and the World Food Program (Pam) as an anti-gang operation continue in the Kenscoff district, in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on February 03, 2025. [Photo, AFP]

Sexual violence against children in violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold last year, the UN children's agency said Friday, as gangs who control most of the capital upped their recruitment of children.

Haiti has been mired for decades by political instability, made worse in recent years by criminal gangs that have grown more powerful.

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