Quarterly Report on the Human Rights Situation in Haiti, July to September 2026

The report covers July to September 2026. BINUH's Human Rights Service recorded at least 1,167 people killed and 459 injured: 50 percent during operations by national security forces, a private military company or patrols of the Gang Suppression Force, 45 percent in gang attacks, and 5 percent in acts by self-defense groups and unorganized members of the population in the Bwa Kale movement. The West department accounted for 85 percent of victims. Men were 81 percent of victims, women 13 percent and children 6 percent.

Gang members returned to Bel-Air, Bas Delmas and La Saline, which they had left after security operations in early 2026. Kidnappings in the capital rose to 92 victims from 51 in the previous quarter, 10 percent of them children. The report documents at least 344 victims of sexual violence by gangs, at least 14 people not affiliated with gangs killed or injured by explosive drones, and 44 cases of extrajudicial executions and attempted extrajudicial executions by police officers, up from 14. It also documents gang interference in the electoral process and violence targeting candidates.

Later sections cover the judiciary, proceedings on massacres, gang support and arms trafficking, anti-corruption work, prison conditions, sanctions and investigations of police officers. Recommendations ask the government to open the first investigations of the specialized judicial units on mass crimes and financial crimes, to apply police vetting and to run a disarmament, dismantling and reintegration program, and ask states in the region to increase inspections of shipments under the arms embargo.