Europa Press, Prensa Latina and AFP
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, p. 32
Madrid. Approximately 5.4 million people suffer from acute food insecurity in Haiti, almost half of the population, according to a new report from the United Nations (UN) that implies record levels of hunger for the Caribbean country, in a context in which that calls for greater political and financial involvement on the part of the international community.
Furthermore, another report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that violence continues to be a problem in Haiti, where 20 people died per day in the first half of 2024, while the Security Council of The UN extended the international mission in the Caribbean nation for one year.
The latest report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) identifies the situation in Haiti as one of the most worrying contexts in the world, with 2 million people at the emergency level, just one step above the famine. At least 6,000 people living in displaced persons camps in the capital, Port-au-Prince, are in this last phase of the CIF.
In total, some 700,000 people have been forced to leave their homes, many of whom have ended up in around 100 enclaves spread throughout the capital and which are usually saturated and lack basic services and supplies, with a high risk. of the spread of theoretically preventable diseases.
The executive director of the World Food Program, Cindy McCain, called Don’t turn your back on the worst hunger emergency in the Western Hemisphere and demanded a raise massive of aid, also taking into account that resolving the crisis as a whole depends on it. There can be no security or stability in Haiti when millions of people face faminehe warned in a statement.
$230 million is required for programs this year
Humanitarian agencies need $230 million to implement planned programs this year alone. In addition to funding limits, there are also blockages related to insecurity, since organizations have problems accessing areas controlled by armed gangs.
The office of the OU High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that 3,661 people have been murdered so far this year.
In turn, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Haiti denounced the socioeconomic deterioration that the country is going through, highlighting the unprecedented situation suffered by the population in Artibonite and the West.
Artibonite is the second department of Haiti with the greatest severity of multisectoral needs after the West, the international organization specified in the document released by the newspaper Le Nouvelliste.
The International Organization for Migration reported that there are almost 600,000 people fleeing gang attacks.