United Nations says children make up 50 percent of gang members in Haiti | Crime News

US and Panama have proposed a security force meant to counter gangs, despite setbacks with an existing Kenya-led policing operation.

The United Nations has reported that children now comprise about half of the membership of Haitian gangs, as violence and political and economic instability continue to roil the Caribbean nation.

On Thursday, the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Catherine Russell, announced the “alarming” statistics, as…