Human Rights Watch Urges the Security Council to Approve a Swift UN Mission Deployment to Haiti

The United Nations Security Council should urgently authorize and swiftly deploy a genuine United Nations mission in Haiti, Human Rights Watch declared in a briefing note published on December 9, 2024. This mission, HRW indicated, should ensure a human rights-based response to restore security, the rule of law, and democratic governance in the country.

The crisis in Haiti has reached catastrophic proportions due to the escalation of large-scale coordinated attacks by criminal groups against the population and key infrastructure, ov