On January 26, the United Nations (UN) called for urgent measures to deploy multinational forces to Haiti after the Supreme Court of Kenya rejected sending police to this Caribbean country.
Mr. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres, emphasized the urgency of applying measures and mobilizing finance to bring stability to Haiti, a country immersed in a situation of violence. never happend.
According to data presented to the UN Security Council on January 25, the increasing rate of murders and kidnappings by gangs has forced hundreds of thousands of Haitians to leave their homes.
UN Special Envoy to Haiti, Ms. María Isabel Salvador, said that gang violence in this country is increasing, the number of deaths, injuries and kidnappings in 2023 has more than doubled in 2022.
Speaking at a short meeting at the UN Security Council on January 25, Ms. Salvador emphasized that the prolonged crisis in Haiti has been very serious.
From October 1 to December 31, 2023, Haitian authorities recorded 1,432 intentional murders, including 157 women, 24 girls and 31 boys.
Also during this period, 698 people were arrested, including 258 women, 14 girls and 17 boys, an increase of more than two times compared to the same period in 2022.
