An alarming 3.3 million children — the highest number on record — are now in need of humanitarian assistance and cases of acute malnutrition, child recruitment, gender-based violence and other children’s rights violations are on the rise. “Children in Haiti are being displaced at a distressing pace and scale,” said UNICEF chief Catherine Russell. “Each time they are forced to flee, they lose not only their homes but also their chance to go to school, to be safe, and to simply be children.”
