The United Nations Special Representative for Haiti is urging the international community to continue standing in solidarity with the Haitian people, as gang violence increases in the country.
Maria Isabel Salvador, who also heads the UN mission in Haiti, says it is impossible to overstate the increase in gang activity in the city and beyond, along with the deterioration of the human rights situation and the deepening of the humanitarian crisis.
She was addressing the UN Security Council from Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, yesterday.
Ms Salvador says roughly 2,500 people were killed or injured due to gang violence during the first quarter of the year.
This represents a 53 per cent increase over the previous reporting period, making it the most violent quarter since the UN Mission began recording statistics two years ago.
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