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LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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January 27, 2025

What Are the Most Pressing Needs in Haiti?

More than one million people are internally displaced in Haiti, the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration said this month. Port-au-Prince is pictured. // File Photo: U.S. Navy.

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Monique Clesca, member of the Commission to Search for a Haitian Solution to the Crisis and the Monitoring Bureau of the Montana Accord: “One million people internally displaced in Haiti signals that close to 10 percent of the population is no longer living at home; worse, most studies show that the majority of internally displaced people do not return to their homes. It’s a tragedy on a massive scale. In 2024, the Haitian government named, at the ministerial level, a humanitarian czar. Unfortunately, he has been silent about the plans and actions of the government to address this massive humanitarian catastrophe. Based on social media videos of several internally displaced men and women, they are unsatisfied with what little they have been given, and complain about unsanitary conditions, lack of adequate food and potable water, and the threats of…”

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