Haiti: How US terrorist designations could deepen criminal rule and humanitarian tragedy.
Reflecting on the scale and severity of gang-driven security, political and humanitarian collapse in Haiti.
Analysis from the Haiti Observatories on the Weaponization of displacement by gangs. In 2024, crime-related violence triggered the displacement of at least 1.2 million people globally – more than twice the number recorded in the previous year. In a report to the Human Rights Council in June 2025, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, warned of the growing role of organized crime as a catalyst for internal displacement worldwide and as a source of serious human rights violations . Haiti has emerged as the epicentre of this crisis. The country accounted for approximately three-quarters of all crime-induced displacement in 2024, reflecting the scale and severity of gang-driven security, political and humanitarian collapse currently underway. The situation has continued to deteriorate in 2025. As of July, over 1.3 million people have been internally displaced in the country, an increase of at least 24% since January. T...
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