(2018-03) Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (S/2018/241)

United Nations • 2018 • 20 pages

Summary — First assessment report on MINUJUSTH after the MINUSTAH closure, reviewing President Moïse's first year, improving security indicators, the PetroCaribe audit, police development, rule-of-law benchmarks and a two-year exit strategy.

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Key Findings

Homicides fell to 217 between 16 October 2017 and 7 February 2018 from 396 in the same period a year earlier, reported sexual and gender-based violence declined 68 percent and civil unrest fell 63 percent. The graduation of 1,022 cadets, including 125 women, brought the Haitian National Police to 15,298 officers, or 1.36 per 1,000 inhabitants. A Senate commission report alleged possible mismanagement of 1.57 billion dollars in PetroCaribe funds between September 2008 and September 2016, and the case was referred to the Superior Court of Accounts. Inflation stood at 13.3 percent in December 2017, the fiscal deficit at 2.1 percent of GDP, and one million people still required humanitarian aid sixteen months after Hurricane Matthew.

Full Description

Submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 2350 (2017), this report assesses the initial mandate of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), created on 16 October 2017 after the closure of MINUSTAH, and proposes a two-year exit strategy toward a non-peacekeeping United Nations presence. It reviews President Jovenel Moïse's first year, including steps to reconstitute the Armed Forces of Haiti, anti-corruption measures, and Senate tensions over the PetroCaribe report alleging possible mismanagement of 1.57 billion dollars between 2008 and 2016. Security indicators improved: homicides fell to 217 between 16 October 2017 and 7 February 2018 from 396 a year earlier, reported sexual and gender-based violence declined 68 percent, and civil unrest fell 63 percent. The graduation of 1,022 cadets brought the Haitian National Police to 15,298 officers. The report also covers a stable gourde but 13.3 percent inflation, a 2.1 percent fiscal deficit, one million people still needing humanitarian aid after Hurricane Matthew, rising migrant returns from the Dominican Republic, and continued progress against cholera, with case and death rates down more than 99 percent from the 2010 peak.

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Time Coverage

2017-10 — 2018-03

Keywords

S/2018/241, MINUJUSTH, MINUSTAH transition, Security Council, Jovenel Moïse, PetroCaribe, Haitian National Police, homicides, exit strategy, cholera, Hurricane Matthew, rule of law, series:minustah-sg

Entities

United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), Security Council, Jovenel Moïse, Parti haïtien Tèt Kale, Armed Forces of Haiti, Jodel Lesage, Haitian National Police, Cour supérieure des comptes, CARICOM, UNDP, UN-Women, International Organization for Migration, UNICEF, Amina J. Mohammed, Josette Sheeran

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