Oral statement to the United Nations Security Council briefing on Haiti, 8 September 2021

A four-page statement delivered at a virtual meeting of the Security Council by the network's programmes director, and the only document in this series written to be spoken. It opens by saying that in Haiti people are not living, and sets out the measures behind that: since January 2021 an average of two people a day die violently and at least thirty-seven police officers have been assassinated; kidnapping for ransom runs at an average of five a day, and women and girls taken are systematically raped; and since 2018 the network has documented thirteen massacres and armed attacks in poor neighbourhoods.

Its recommendations to the Council are political: support free and inclusive elections held in a calm climate and on the basis of a political agreement, back efforts to prosecute members of the government for their part in mass violations, denounce the coalition of armed groups, stop BINUH supporting a single-headed government and an electoral process that risks worsening instability, and change BINUH's leadership.