The nine-year-old boys wearing matching knapsacks walk down the street in the morning ... The U.N. estimates that the number of children in the ranks of Haiti’s gangs has increased by 70% ...

Yet for Haiti’s children — the millions caught in the crossfire, no longer able to attend school, or pushed to join the armed gangs amid crippling poverty — the situation is especially dire.

((Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)) The last of 10 U.S. missionaries arrested in Haiti while trying to take 33 children out of the country following the Jan. 12 earthquake was released Monday after being ...

Nearly 60% of the population lives below the poverty line. In recent months, Haiti has descended into a critical state of violence and chaos. More than one million children are trapped in areas ...

Toddlers to teenagers are sleeping in classrooms at the prestigious Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague Hundreds of children in Haiti are taking refuge at a high school in the capital Port-au ...

Its Director-General, Amy Pope, said that Haiti needed "sustained humanitarian assistance right now to save and protect lives". Half of those displaced are children, according to the IOM's figures.