United Nations reveals four cases of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by the Multinational Mission in Haiti

According to a document from the UN General Secretariat titled ‘Special measures for protection against sexual exploitation and abuse’, to which he had access EFE this Thursday after the Haitian media reported it Ayibo Post, “all allegations were corroborated due to investigations carried out by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The document, dated February 16 and which concerns complaints about sexual exploitation and abuse received by the UN about its missions or those it supports in various parts of the world, establishes that the reports on the cases that occurred in Haiti were sent to the Multinational Security Support Mission and the commander of the Gang Suppression Force – which replaced the MSS – “for relevant investigations to be carried out and the necessary corrective measures will be adopted.

Marta Hurtado Gómez, spokesperson for the UN human rights commissiondeclared to It’s not Post what the measures to be taken in relation to these cases correspond to the force and the countries involvedsince the operation It is not a formal UN mission.

The U.N.-backed force was initially led by Kenya, which provides the majority of its roughly 1,000 troops, and first deployed in June 2024. In September, it was restructured with the goal of creating a larger, better-equipped and more aggressive

The MSS was created in 2023 by the UN Security Council with the purpose of fight powerful armed gangs that have taken over 90% of the metropolitan area of ​​Port-au-Prince and have moved to other towns in the interior.

The force began its operations in support of the Haitian National Police (PHN) in mid-2024. Its ineffectiveness determined that the United Nations Security Council created the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), whose first troops, from Chad, arrived this week in Port-au-Prince.

This mission takes over from the MSS when the gangs have expanded their domain this last year beyond Port-au-Prince towards the departments of Centro and Artibonite, amid high levels of violence between gangs, security forces, private companies and “self-defense” groups that have caused 5,519 deaths and 2,608 injuries between March 1, 2025 and January 15 of this year.

Was numerous allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation, including allegations of minor victimsagainst the UN peacekeepers who participated in the MINUSTAH mission in Haiti between 2004 and 2017. Only a few members of these forces were prosecuted for their countries of origin.