Published annually by the UN, the list includes dozens of state and non-state groups credibly suspected of having engaged âsystematicallyâ in sexual violence in countries such as Sudan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Syria and Mali.
Last August, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia of their possible inclusion on the list.
(October 18, 2025)
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met and discussed various issues on the regional agenda including the increased security build up in the Caribbean and the potential impacts on Member States. Save in respect of Trinidad and Tobago who reserved its position, Heads agreed on the following:
They reaffirmed the principle of maintaining the Caribbean Region as a Zone of Peace and the importance of dialogue and engagement towards the peaceful resolution of disputes and conflict. CARICOM remains willing to assist towards that objective.
CARICOM Heads of Government reiterated their continued commitment to fighting narcotrafficking and the illegal trade in small arms and light weapons which adversely affect the Region. They underscored that efforts to overcome these challenges should be through ongoing international cooperation and within international law.
They reaffirmed unequivocal support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries in the Region and the safety and livelihoods of the people of the Region.
(October 2, 2025)
Civil society groups also cautiously welcomed the vote. The Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights (CARDH) and other signatories of the December 21 Accord emphasized that the missionâs success will depend on coordination between Haitian institutions, international backers and watchdog mechanisms.
(October 1, 2025)
The Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti is a newly authorized multinational mission by the UN Security Council.
With a 12-month mandate, the 5,550-strong force will work alongside Haitian authorities to neutralize gangs, secure infrastructure, and support humanitarian access.
Its main aim is to protect vulnerable populations from escalating violence and prevent the displacement that inevitably causes.
The 83 security personnel included an advance team of eight soldiers from El Salvador and the first 75 of 150 military police officers from Guatemala.
While the Salvadorans will be providing casualty and medical evacuations in support of the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission, the Guatemalans will be joining operations to take down Haitiâs gangs.
Citing sources in the area, Haitiâs Committee for Peace and Development (CPD) also said the attack targeted âall elderly people and Voodoo practitioners who, in (Micanorâs) imagination, would be capable of casting a bad spell on his son,â and left the bodies of victims mutilated in the streets.
At least 184 people were killed in the massacre, including an estimated 127 elderly men and women, the United Nations said.
The killings were carried out by Micanor Altes, who goes by the names Wa MikanĂČâ and Monel Felix, between Friday and Saturday in the Wharf JĂ©rĂ©mie section of CitĂ© Solei in Port-au-Prince, and on the advice of a local Vodou priest who accused the communityâs elderly residents of being responsible for the childâs ailments.
With gang violence intensifying, and the national police unable to counter it, so-called âself-defence brigadesâ have continued to emerge and take justice into their own hands, the report said. At least 528 cases of lynching were reported in 2023 and a further 59 this year.
Additionally, despite an arms embargo, there is a reliable supply of weapons and ammunition for the gangs coming through porous borders, resulting in the groups often having superior firepower to the police.
The report calls for tighter national and international controls to stem weapons and ammunition trafficking into Haiti and reiterates the need for the urgent deployment of a multinational security support (MSS) mission to back up the police force.
The UN Security Council authorised the missionâs deployment in October 2023, and Kenya has offered to lead it.
The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (French: Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en HaĂŻti), also known as MINUSTAH, an acronym of the French name, was a UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti that was in operation from 2004 to 2017.
(10.03.2024)
Haiti is gripped by chaos and disorder, as criminal gangs increasingly assert control over the country. Haiti‘s acting leader, Ariel Henry, is outside the country and attempting to negotiate a way home, even as the United States calls for him to resign and plan elections for a new government.
On Sunday, the U.S. said it had deployed additional security to its embassy in Port-au-Prince and airlifted some non-essential diplomatic staff out of the country.
(16.07.2023)
A few days ago, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an official visit to Haiti, trying to shed light on the situation for the world to see. Tweeting from Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, Guterres expressed his solidarity with the Haitian people and called for an international response against the lawlessness and violence that has swallowed the country. It is not the time to forget Haiti, he said, but have his words fallen on deaf ears?
(29.05.2023)
According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis (March 2023), 4.9 million people in Haiti – nearly half of the country‘s population – are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity. This figure represents an increase of 200 000 people in just five months. And of the total number of people affected, 1.8 million are in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) â up from the analyses in the last three years.
(20.02.2024)
Joseph and the former director-general of the national police, Leon Charles, were also found to have âsufficient indicationsâ of involvement in the killing. AyiboPost specified that the document did not clearly identify the masterminds of the assassination, nor their financiers.
(20.02.2024)
A judge in Haiti responsible for investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel MoĂŻse has indicted his widow, Martine MoĂŻse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haitiâs National Police, LĂ©on Charles, among others, according to a report obtained Monday.
Others who face charges including murder are Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian-American pastor who visualized himself as Haitiâs next president and said he thought MoĂŻse was only going to be arrested; Joseph Vincent, a Haitian-American and former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; Dimitri HĂ©rard, presidential security chief; John JoĂ«l Joseph, a former Haitian senator; and Windelle Coq, a Haitian judge whom authorities say is a fugitive.
(09.07.2021)
Solages also worked as a security guard for the Canadian Embassy in Port-Au-Prince. (…)
Despite an obvious failure in police operations, the masthead of the police force has not changed, with Charles remaining the Chief of Police, despite claims from Haitian journalists that he gave the order to allow the caravan of assassins into the Presidentâs neighborhood. In February, the Haitian National Police began a partnership with Colombian police forces, but it is unknown if any of the mercenaries arrested participated in this arrangement.
In the two days since the attack, former Prime Minister turned interim President Joseph has consolidated power. In 2004, Joseph was a member of the group Grenn Nan Bouda (GNB) which means âballs up your assâ in Haitian Creole. GNB participated in the coup to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that same year.
Joseph was not elected to his position, but was appointed in April by MoĂŻse, and served only three months as Prime Minister. After declaring himself interim President, he has been breezily accepted by the international community, including the United States.
(07.09.2021)
Claiming to be agents with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (the DEA, which maintains a presence in Haiti to assist with counter-narcotics operations), the group gained entry to the home and killed the president.
(…)
What happened in Haiti on July 7?
KIM IVES There was a band of mercenaries with brand new Nissan Patrol vehicles. They clearly had knowledge of the layout of the presidential compound, where MoĂŻse lived. They were clearly well-financed, well-prepared. It was a very sophisticated operation.
Who had the money to do that? And who would want to do that?
Haiti LibertĂ©âs working hypothesis is that the mercenaries, more than likely, were hired by one or a consortium of the bourgeois families who are opposed to MoĂŻse. Reginald Boulos is one. Dimitri Vorbe is another. There are several others who were unhappy with MoĂŻse.
If this hypothesis is correct, their fear is of the uprising that is coming out of Haitiâs vast shantytowns, where the lumpenproletariat is organizing itself into armed gangs, which have now vowed to carry out a revolution against the bourgeoisie and âthe rotten system,â as they call it in Haiti.
Once upon a time, Haiti was called the Jewel of the Antilles because it was the richest colony in the world. However, much of this wealth was built through slave labor, and the roots of Haitiâs French colonial past put in place a caste system of the âelites and noirs,â which grew into the socioeconomic disparity that Haiti struggles with today. The richest Haitian families hold most of the wealth, while a much larger portion of the population struggles with poverty, resulting in food insecurity, health problems, and educational deficiency.
(07.02.2023)
In the early 1990s, the U.S. government sanctioned Bigio, his wife, son and others for their support of a military coup that ousted Haitiâs first democratically elected president. Years later, a member of a Haitian militia â or private army â accused Bigio and another businessman of paying for the 1993 assassination of a prominent democracy activist, according to Jeb Sprauge, author and University of California Riverside research associate. Authorities in Haiti did not charge Bigio with or accuse him of wrongdoing.
(16.12.2022)
For years, Haitians have said Bigio and other oligarchs are complicit in the violence strangling the nation: This year 1,448 people have been killed, with another 1,005 kidnapped for ransom. Until now, however, the international community has stayed mostly silent about Haitiâs corrupt elite. (…)
Daniel Foote, the former U.S envoy to Haiti who resigned in September 2021 to protest against the disastrous American policy, told me that he thinks Canada and the U.S. State Department are working together to economically punish Bigio and the others. But he suspects that the United States cannot follow Canadaâs example by imposing stiff sanctions, possibly because Bigio may be a U.S. citizen and thus entitled to due process. In theory, however, U.S. prosecutors could bring cases against Bigio and other oligarchs for funding the vicious gangs whether these defendants have U.S. citizenship or not. As things stand, inaction is much more likely.
On Tuesday, U.S. Special Envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote presented his resignation to the State Department in protest at the inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants on the U.S. border.
Die PrĂ€sidentschafts- und Parlamentswahlen sowie das Verfassungsreferendum in Haiti sollen am 7. November dieses Jahres stattfinden. Vor der Ermordung von PrĂ€sident Jovenel MoĂŻse am 7. Juli waren sie fĂŒr den 26. September geplant, wurden wegen des anhaltenden politischen Chaos jedoch verschoben.
Nach Angaben der US-Erdbebenwarte USGS hatte der ErdstoĂ heute FrĂŒh (Ortszeit) eine StĂ€rke von 7,2. Es ereignete sich in der NĂ€he der Gemeinde Saint-Louis-du-Sud.
Der mit der Untersuchung des Mordes an Haitis Staatschef Jovenel MoĂŻse beauftragte Ermittlungsrichter hat nur wenige Tage nach seiner Einsetzung den Fall abgegeben.
Die infrage kommenden Juristen haben demnach Angst um ihre Sicherheit und die ihrer Familie.
The funeral honors are taking place in the gardens of the Habitation Village SOS, the private residence of the Moise family, which is guarded by a heavy security apparatus. The coffin covered with the Haitian flag was carried by a funeral cortege of six soldiers of the Armed Forces in full dress.
Moise war in der Nacht auf 7. Juli in seinem Haus in der Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince von einem Mordkommando erschossen worden. Nach Polizeiangaben gehörten â26 Kolumbianer und zwei US-BĂŒrger haitianischer Herkunftâ zu dem Kommando.