{"id":157812,"date":"2025-07-21T14:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-news-in-brief-rights-abuses-in-haiti-sudan-war-sees-exodus-to-chad-food-trade-optimism-un-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:16:43","slug":"world-news-in-brief-rights-abuses-in-haiti-sudan-war-sees-exodus-to-chad-food-trade-optimism-un-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-news-in-brief-rights-abuses-in-haiti-sudan-war-sees-exodus-to-chad-food-trade-optimism-un-news\/","title":{"rendered":"World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism – UN News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> on Friday.<\/span> <\/span>
Between 1 January and 30 May, at least 2,680 people \u2013 including 54 children \u2013 were killed, 957 injured, 316 kidnapped for ransom, and many more subjected to sexual violence and child gang recruitment.
\u201cAlarming as they are, numbers cannot express the horrors Haitians are being forced to endure daily,\u201d said Mr. T\u00fcrk.
In recent months, gangs have attacked Mirebalais in the centre of the country, looting police stations, destroying property and freeing over 500 inmates from the local prison.
Meanwhile, so-called self-defence groups have targeted individuals they suspect of gang affiliation. On 20 May, at least 25 people were killed and 10 injured by a group accusing them of supporting gangs.
Law enforcement has ramped up operations against them. Since January, police have killed at least 1,448 people, including 65 during extrajudicial executions.
Mr. T\u00fcrk called on the international community to take decisive action to end the violence, including renewed support for the Security Council<\/a>-backed Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission and full enforcement of the council\u2019s arms embargo.
He also reiterated his call for States to not forcibly return anyone to Haiti.  
\u201cThe coming months will be crucial and will test the international community\u2019s ability to take stronger, more coordinated action \u2013 action that will help determine the future stability of Haiti and the wider region,\u201d Mr. T\u00fcrk added.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO<\/a>) released their annual Food Outlook report Thursday which provides a \u201crelatively optimistic\u201d look at international food markets.  
According to the report, production is expected to increase across almost all categories, with grain production expected to reach record levels. And while prices do remain higher this year than last, between April and May there was an overall decrease of almost one per cent. 
The report noted, however, that global trends \u2014 including rising geopolitical tensions, climate shocks and trade uncertainties \u2014 may still negatively impact production.  
\u201cWhile agricultural production trends appear solid, drivers that could negatively impact global food security are increasing,\u201d said FAO Chief Economist M\u00e1ximo Torero.
The report noted that outbreaks of avian influenza have become more persistent and constitute \u201cone of the most significant biological threats to the global poultry sector.\u201d Nevertheless, poultry exports have remained largely resilient so far.  
The issue of fish fraud \u2013 the misrepresentation of the location or manner of the catch \u2013 was also discussed, with FAO warning that risks are growing.  
Additionally, the report examined fertilizer flows, noting Russia\u2019s growing exports and the decrease in fertilizer prices since the COVID pandemic.  
Overall, the report noted, the cost of imports worldwide has increased by 3.6 percent or nearly $2.1 trillion.  
Aid teams in eastern Chad warn on Friday that host communities are reaching breaking point because of climate shocks and the pressure of hosting war refugees from neighbouring Sudan.
In an alert, the UN\u2019s top aid official in Chad, Fran\u00e7ois Batalingaya, warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding almost unnoticed by the world\u2019s media.
\u201cRight now, nearly 300,000 people are stranded at the border, waiting to be relocated inland,\u201d he noted.  
\u201cTens of thousands, mostly women and children, are sleeping in the open without shelter, clean water and health care. These are survivors of war. They arrive traumatized, hungry, and with nothing. They recount stories of mass killings, sexual violence and entire communities destroyed.\u201d 
Since the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, more than 850,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed into Chad. They\u2019ve joined the 400,000 existing Sudanese refugees who have arrived over the last 15 years.
The UN aid official explained that even before the latest Sudanese arrivals, nearly one million people in eastern Chad were in urgent need of help.  
Today, \u201cthey are sharing what little they have \u2013 food, water, and space \u2013 with those fleeing the war,\u201d Mr. Batalingaya said.
In an appeal for international assistance, he warned that clinics are overwhelmed, malnutrition is rising and basic services are buckling.  
Nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee gang violence in Haiti and seek refuge elsewhere within the Caribbean country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday.<\/span>
The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday.
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