Haiti's children are at the heart of a worsening humanitarian crisis marked by hunger, displacement, and escalating violence that includes child soldiers, a new report detailed. Over 1.5 million children have lost access to education, and many face growing risks of exploitation, including recruitment into armed gangs, UNICEF reported during a U.N. special meeting.
Political instability, natural disasters, and deep-rooted poverty mark a crisis that has alreayd forced 700,000 Haitians—365,000 of them children—into overcrowded camps lacking basic sanitation, with no access to drinking water or latrines.
