The Organization of American States is coming under pressure to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and personnel.

Caribbean officials are demanding more access to funding and help in fighting climate change just weeks after Hurricane Beryl devastated the region.

The head of the Organization of American States is facing a call from the Biden administration for an external probe into possible misconduct tied to his intimate relationship with a subordinate.

The head of the Organization of American States says he won’t interfere in an internal ethics probe into claims he had a romance with a staffer, and he insists he took no action to favor the younger woman allegedly involved.

But in recent days, she stepped into the middle of a bitter feud between Almagro and the leadership of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, or IACHR, the regions top rights watchdog. Human rights defenders and the United Nations immediately condemned the move as a threat to the IACHRs independence. This intervention is suggestive of an unprecedented political maneuver by the OAS' secretary general, he said. She says she learned about Almagros plans to issue a statement from other OAS employees not the Secretary General himself. I have always been willing to listen and I am open to any serious and impartial investigation with all rights preserved.