UN Security Council Addresses Deepening Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti as Forced Deportations Surge

An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council was convened to discuss Haiti's worsening humanitarian crisis, with nearly 200,000 people forcibly returned to the country in the first eight months of 2026, a 10% increase over the previous year. Amid surging gang violence and a recent attack that killed 47, nearly 1.5 million people are internally displaced, with half being children, living in 'squalid' conditions. Haiti has urged the full deployment of the UN-mandated Gang Suppression Force.