“Urgent action is needed to address the extreme levels of violence and the palpable fear, hunger, and sense of abandonment that so many Haitians experience today,” said Nathalye Cotrino, crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch.

The UN estimates that nearly half of Haiti’s total population of 11.5 million people is acutely food insecure.

Over 19,000 people living in the Cité Soleil commune of Port-au-Prince faced catastrophic hunger in late 2022 for the first time on record in Haiti and in the Americas.

Haiti is now one of the countries with communities most at risk for starvation, alongside Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen.  5.2 million people currently need humanitarian assistance.

Human Rights Watch documented 67 killings, including of 11 children and 12 women, and 23 cases of rape, including 19 cases in which victims were raped by multiple perpetrators

A significant minority of migrant Haitian workers live in the Bahamas, principally in the islands of New Providence, Grand Bahama and Great Abaco. Fleeing poverty and repression at home, their number is estimated between 20,000 and 70,000.

Haitians are conspicuous and have frequently been targets for harassment and forced repatriations.

Inter-ethnic tensions and inequities continue to persist, and in the opinion of some observers have even escalated. Members of the Haitian community in particular continue to complain of discrimination in the job market. They point out that identity documents and work permits are controlled by employers who use the threat of deportation as employment leverage.

Discrimination in education is evident as children of Haitian parentage who are born in the Bahamas are required to pay the tuition rate for foreign students while awaiting the processing of their request for citizenship.

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