UNICEF

The increase comes as poverty deepens and violence increases amid political instability. Gangs that control 85% of Port-au-Prince are attacking once peaceful communities in a push to assume total control of the capital.

COMMENTARY The near certainty that Haiti's omnipotent gangs will forcefully recruit minors, à la Central America, should move the U.S. to act there.

UNICEF reports gang violence in Port-au-Prince the past year has destroyed homes and made 14,000 Haitians refugees — mostly women and children.

For years, Caribbean governments have argued their countries bear the brunt of climate change. A new U.N. study says Caribbean children may bear the worst…