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Sexual Violence Risk Soaring For Displaced Haiti Women, UN Warns

Vendors sell soup near a displacement camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in August 2024 (Credit: AFP)

Thousands of women and girls displaced by Haiti's gang violence are under threat from a surge in sexual assaults, the United Nations warned Tuesday, denouncing deplorable living conditions in makeshift camps.

"The risk of sexual violence for women and girls in displacement sites in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince is rapidly rising owing, in part, to the alarmingly poor living conditions they are facing," the global body's sexual and reproductive health agency UNFPA said in a statement.

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