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UN humanitarian coordinator calls Haiti crisis "alarming, acute and urgent" as funding falls short
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Enrique Richardson, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Haiti, described a worsening security and humanitarian crisis — including mass displacement, child recruitment and failing health services — and said the UN response plan is only 9% funded.
Enrique Richardson, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Haiti, warned reporters at a UN briefing that the security and humanitarian situation in Haiti is “alarming, acute and urgent,” and said international funding and political support remain far short of needs.
Richardson, who said he will leave his Haiti post to take a new assignment in Libya on Sept. 1 after more than three years in Port-au-Prince, told the briefing that roughly 1,300,000 people have been displaced by gang violence, about half of them children, and that some 3,000 people have been killed in gang-related incidents since the start of the year. He said about 2,000,000 people are living at IPC 4, the emergency level of food insecurity.
The scale of the crisis, Richardson said, is not only statistical. “Behind every figure there is a woman, a mother, a child, a father, a young young person,” he said, describing accounts of sexual violence, children being…
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