Sexual violence in Haiti 'severely underreported,' 'largely unpunished' UN says

A report published Thursday on the situation in Haiti, which is facing intense gang violence, by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that sexual violence there is “severely underreported."

The report said that according to the U.N. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), gangs in the Caribbean country have used “sexual violence to spread fear, subjugate and punish the population.” 

“Sexual violence remains severely underreported due to community stigma...