Haitian children ‘paying the highest price’ amid surge in gang recruitment Children now constitute around half of the gang members who have taken de facto control of large swathes of the country,  Vanessa Frazier told journalists at UN Headquarters, following her first fact-finding mission to the Caribbean island nation.  Estimates indicate that up to 1,600 schools have been destroyed, damaged or are non-functional.  “Today, children in Haiti are facing levels of violence that no child, anywhere, should ever endure,” she said. In a country where gang violence has led to widespread disorder for many years, Ms. Frazier said growing up in Haiti means a “ daily struggle to survive, live in constant fear, and be subject to intimidation, violence, family separation, displacement, and trauma as gangs take advantage of the vulnerability of these children.” In 2025 alone, the recruitment and use of children nearly tripled.…