UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country.

The surge reflects the growing reliance by criminal gangs on the exploitation of children amid the ongoing violence, UNICEF said Thursday. It's a situation that the U.N. and members of the Security ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young people mingle at a displacement camp in Leogane, Haiti. Children area among large number of Haitians who have been forced ...

Children in Haiti are being pushed to join armed groups amid horrific violence, poverty and a breakdown in the systems that should protect them. UNICEF is calling for more international support to ...

UNICEF’s Executive Director calls on the international community to step up and support humanitarian response and recovery efforts in Haiti as children and families continue to suffer: “Now is the ...

The head of the United Nations called on Haitian authorities Thursday to do more to protect children from recruitment by armed gangs and for the international community to step up efforts to respond ...

The local director of a mission group in Haiti and a missionary couple from the U.S. were attacked and fatally shot by gang members after leaving a youth group activity at a church, a family member ...

The auction, held on Saturday, will help provide kids in Haiti with access to education.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children’s agency said this week as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and ...

For more than 25 years, the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti – headquartered in Chattanooga – has been working in Haiti to raise a healthy generation of Haitian children, who can, in turn, help ...

Violence against children in Haiti increased by nearly 500% last year, according to a United Nations report, ranking the Caribbean nation as dangerous a place for children war-torn Gaza, the ...