Gang violence in Haiti has led to the displacement of more than 700,000 people, forcing them to flee their homes for safety. Critics fault U.S. strategy amid escalating unrest.

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people.

Gang violence in Haiti drove a record of more than one million people from their homes last year, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the figure marked a threefold increase in displacement within a year,

More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed

Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violence. The U.N.

The UN migration agency reports that gang violence in Haiti has caused a threefold increase in internal displacement within a year, affecting over 1 million people. The violence has led to a collapse of services and food security in Port-au-Prince,

IOM says children, who make up more than half of Haiti’s displaced population, bear the greatest burden of displacement

Children make up at least half of Haiti’s displaced population, which has tripled within a year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. View on euronews