{"id":289826,"date":"2025-03-17T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289826"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:03:34","slug":"haitis-survival-is-at-stake-says-un-expert-warning-of-worsening-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/haitis-survival-is-at-stake-says-un-expert-warning-of-worsening-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Haiti\u2019s Survival Is at Stake,\u2019 Says UN Expert, Warning of Worsening Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"views-field views-field-field-news-story-lead\">\n<div class=\"field-content\">\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">11 Mar 2025 &#8211;<\/span><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> Haiti is in free fall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and \u201csuffering permeates all social strata\u201d in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/hc-expert-haiti\/mr-william-oneill-high-commissioners-designated-expert-human-rights-haiti\" class=\"ext\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-extlink=\"\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">UN human rights office\u2019s designated expert<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> on the country, William O\u2019Neill.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_289827\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/haiti-lac.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289827\" class=\"wp-image-289827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/haiti-lac-1024x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/haiti-lac-1024x464.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/haiti-lac-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/haiti-lac-768x348.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/haiti-lac.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-289827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vendors surrounded by garbage sell goods in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. \u00a9 OHCHR\/Marion Mondain<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/03\/1161006\" >TO READ FULL STORY Go to Original &#8211; news.un.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Mar 2025 &#8211; Haiti is in free fall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and \u201csuffering permeates all social strata\u201d in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the UN human rights office\u2019s designated expert on the country, William O\u2019Neill.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[101,100,975,541,103,2137,99],"class_list":["post-289826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-haiti","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-racism","tag-south-america","tag-structural-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289828,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289826\/revisions\/289828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}