A United Nations report from February details 4 sexual abuse investigations, one involving a 12-year-old baby, that implicate members of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) forces, a Kenyan-led and US-backed military mission to fight gang violence in Haiti.
“In 2025, the United Nations received four allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse involving personnel from the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti,” the report says.
“All the allegations were found to be substantiated by investigations conducted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.”
Three of the victims had been kids who had been allegedly raped. A fourth sufferer, who allegedly suffered sexual violence, was 18-years-old.
The UN report states that the circumstances had been referred to the MSS and its successor group, the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), for “appropriate investigation and remedial measures.” NCS has reached out to the spokesperson for the MSS for remark.
The MSS was transitioned final 12 months into the GSF, with a broader mandate to fight armed teams in the nation. The information comes days after Chadian troopers with the GSF arrived in the nation on Wednesday.
The allegations had been first reported by the Haitian newspaper Ayibo Post.
Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, instructed NCS that the report “has been shared with the Gang Suppression Force,” emphasizing that the mission will not be underneath UN supervision.
“Four cases is four too many,” William O’Neill, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Designated Expert on Haiti, instructed NCS.
“There must be independent investigations followed by prosecutions if the evidence is there. Maximum transparency and no impunity. And justice for the victims,” he stated.
The doc signifies that every one 4 circumstances had been investigated by the workplace of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), with the case involving the 12-year-old investigated internally by the MSS.
The report provides one other bitter notice to the MSS mission, which struggled for a 12 months to assist native police’s response to an epidemic of gang violence earlier than ending in October 2025.
Haiti was plunged into disaster in 2021, when mercenaries assassinated President Jovenel Moise. Gangs have since seized management of a lot of the capital, Port-au-Prince, main then-Prime Minister Ariel Henry to request international military support in 2022.
The MSS mission was extensively perceived as a failure, with funding shortfalls and a scarcity of personnel. Gangs have continued to kidnap, kill and displace Haitian civilians. In the primary 5 months of 2024, 2,680 individuals had been killed and greater than 1.3 million compelled from their properties, based on UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk.
“Nothing has changed,” stated Réginald Fils-Aimé, a Haitian physician with Zanmi Lasante, Haiti’s largest non-governmental healthcare supplier. The group was compelled to shutter a number of hospitals resulting from violence. Gangs management vital provide routes, disrupting entry to drugs and tools.
The report will not be the primary occasion of misconduct lodged in opposition to worldwide peacekeeping personnel in Haiti. NCS beforehand reported that UN peacekeepers despatched to Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake fathered and deserted dozens of children with Haitian ladies.