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The state of sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published January 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM EST
A woman cries outside her house after armed gangs set it on fire in the Post Marchand neighborhood of Port-au-Prince on Dec. 17, 2024. (Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images)
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A woman cries outside her house after armed gangs set it on fire in the Post Marchand neighborhood of Port-au-Prince on Dec. 17, 2024. (Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images)

Here & Now’s Robin Young talks with Doctors Without Borders head of mission in Haiti, Diana Manilla Arroyo, about the alarming rise of sexual and gender-based violence in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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