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“Haiti's crisis has become deeper, more complex and more urgent,” said Youri Saadallah, Global Emergency Director of the Norwegian Refugee Council, following a mission to Haiti.
Briefing reporters in New York from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he said 6.4 million people, more than half the country's population, require humanitarian assistance, and only one in ten public health facilities with inpatient capacity are fully operational nationwide.
“Speaking not only as a humanitarian, but also as a father and, quite frankly, as a human being, the situation we witnessed is unacceptable,” Saadallah said. “The strongest message we heard was that people no longer feel safe. They are being stripped of [their] dignity. Women and children are bearing the brunt of this crisis. Sexual violence, including collective rape, is rampant. There is a disturbing sense that such abuses are becoming normal.” |
