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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Private security guards watch the premises and a 12-foot wall protects the sprawling solar-powered Miracle Village in Fond-Parisien, where a self-defense citizens’ brigade patrols the town’s ...

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