Assessment of progress achieved on the key benchmarks pursuant to paragraph 14 of resolution 2752 (2024): Report of the Secretary-General (S/2025/588)

Issued on September 18, 2025 and reissued on September 25, 2025, the report responds to the Security Council's request in resolution 2752 (2024) for an assessment of progress on key benchmarks by October 1, 2025. It draws on a Secretariat visit to Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien from 27 to July 30, 2025 and consultations with BINUH, the country team, civil society and the Caribbean Community. The report covers the period since the previous assessment (S/2024/711) and reviews judicial and rule of law capacity, violence by armed groups, and illicit trafficking of arms. It documents gangs controlling an estimated 85 per cent of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, rising homicides, kidnappings and sexual violence, and a sharp rise in grave violations affecting children.

It reports that arms seizures remain very low compared with the estimated weapons in the country. The Secretary-General concludes that the sanctions regime has had a limited impact and urges a coherent strategy to coordinate security actors, full resourcing of the Multinational Security Support Mission, and expansion of the sanctions list to political and economic backers of gangs.