The tragedy in the Artibonite region, considered the country’s breadbasket, is yet another example of Haiti’s descent into ...

Haitian "self-defense brigades," which claim to protect communities from gangs, are being accused of engaging in violent ...

RNDDH Executive Director Pierre Esperance said that the members of the self-defense brigades also participated in the clashes against the gang members, while the PNH published on Facebook that a ...

Adams Gang violence has killed more than 1,500 people in Haiti so far this year ... with community groups — some calling themselves “self-defense brigades” — attacking people suspected ...

The group is being portrayed by the media as an effective solution to the problem of Haiti’s gangs ... armed mobs as “civilians” and “self-defense brigades.” Local reporting in the ...

The U.N. said dozens of people have been lynched by so-called self-defense brigades this year. Many of the gang members are convicted criminals, 4,000 of whom have escaped from Haiti’s two ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Haiti now needs between 4,000 and 5,000 ... As a result of the escalating gang violence, so-called "self-defense brigades" have taken justice into their own hands, the report ...

A joint operation by the Haiti National Police and the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission failed to regain control of the city. A self-defense citizens’ brigade in Fond-Parisien ...

Haiti, after he and several members of his church were beheaded in an attack. carried out by members of self-defense brigades.