"The death toll between January and June which included 100 children showed that last year's high levels of violence had been maintained. No more lives should be lost to this senseless criminality," said UN rights chief Volker Turk in a statement on the ongoing gang violence in Haiti.
"Gangs have continued to use sexual violence to punish, spread fear and subjugate populations," highlighting the brutal tactics employed by armed groups amid the humanitarian crisis.
The report indicates that arms trafficking primarily from the United States, along with the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, is fueling the ongoing violence in Haiti.
Turk urged the international community to implement a global arms embargo, a travel ban, and an asset freeze programme imposed by the UN Security Council to mitigate the violence.
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