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 ...

In Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince ... local authorities and residents. Citizens’ self-defense groups, known as brigades, are increasingly emerging as a response by locals to take ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (AP) — Haiti now needs between 4,000 and ... As a result of the escalating gang violence, so-called “self-defense brigades” have taken justice into their own hands, the ...

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 ...