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Multinational Gang Suppression Force (GSF)
Authorization date: 09/25
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United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti 
Authorization date: 06/19
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30.09.2025
UN Security Council approves new ‘suppression force’ for Haiti amid spiralling gang violence

The UN Security Council on Tuesday authorized a new multinational Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti to replace the Kenyan-led security support mission, amid escalating gang violence, widespread rights abuses and a humanitarian emergency affecting all aspects of life in the island nation.

Source: UN News
23.09.2025
Haiti’s security crisis ‘is like the Sword of Damocles above us’: Foreign Minister

Foreign Ministers from across the Americas met on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to rally for greater support for Haiti. … The discussions were held as the Security Council prepares to resume debate on a proposal by the Secretary-General to establish a new UN Support Office in Haiti. 

Source: UN News
10.09.2025
UN relief chief implores ‘we have to do better’ to support gang-ravaged nation

“I’m ashamed on behalf of the world that we cannot find it in ourselves to be more compassionate, to be more kind, to recognise what people here are going through,” said Tom Fletcher, who heads the UN emergency relief agency, OCHA, during a visit to the Caribbean nation. … Half of all Haitians face food insecurity and unprecedented levels of forced displacement which tripled last year to over one million people, according to an update by OCHA, which noted that large scale displacements have continued into 2025. 

Source: UN News
15.08.2025
‘The Wild West’: Desperation is rampant in Haiti as gangs, vigilantes spread

With armed gangs expanding their influence, self-defence groups morphing into gang-like entities and public officials acting with impunity, Haiti is slowly becoming something like the Wild West, according to William O’Neill, the UN’s designated expert on human rights for the Caribbean island nation.

Source: UN News
23.07.2025
Violence and displacement driving humanitarian crisis as funding needs go unmet

Nearly 1.3 million people in the Caribbean country have fled their homes, with an additional 15,000 uprooted last week after armed attacks in the communes of Dessalines and Verrettes in the Artibonite department. … More than halfway through the year, the Haitian humanitarian response plan has received less than 9 per cent of the $908 million required.  

Source: UN News
14.07.2025
Security Council renews UN’s Haiti mission amid spiralling crises

Amid runaway gang violence and crumbling state authority, the Security Council on Monday unanimously extended the mandate of the UN’s political mission in Haiti until the end of the year. Aid agencies remain deeply concerned by the humanitarian crisis playing out across the Caribbean island nation.

Source: UN News
03.07.2025
UN appoints Mexican diplomat as new chief of shrinking Haiti office

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Mexican diplomat Carlos Ruiz as the organization's special representative to Haiti and head of the U.N.'s office in the embattled Caribbean nation, that office, known as BINUH, said on Thursday.

Source: Reuters (paywall)
02.07.2025
Haitian capital ‘paralysed and isolated’ by gang violence, Security Council hears

Since January, the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), recorded over 4,000 individuals deliberately killed – a 24 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2024.  

Source: UN News
25.06.2025
International community urged to address persisting violence in Haiti

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged the international community to address escalating violence and human rights abuses in Haiti, noting that conditions have been steadily deteriorating one year after the deployment of the first personnel under the UN-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission.

Source: JURIST News
11.06.2025
Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians

Nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee gang violence in Haiti and seek refuge elsewhere within the Caribbean country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday. This represents a 24 per cent increase from December 2024 according to the UN agency – the largest number of people displaced by violence on record there.

Source: UN News