These numbers are similar to those of the first quarter Out of 2025, when 1,617 people were killed and 580 were injured.
“Gang attacks in the Articonites and Central departments, and in the capital, continue to cause serious human rights violations and worsen an already disastrous humanitarian crisis,” said Ulrika Richardson, resident and humanitarian coordinator of the United Nations in Haiti.
Gangs inside and beyond the Capitol
The assassination of President Jenel Moses in 2021 sparked great violence in the gangs in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Today, the UN estimates that gangs control at least 85% of the city. In recent months, many have started to extend their influence in the departments of the Center and Artibonite.
In June alone, 45,000 people were moved to the center and at the artibonite, which means that the total number of people displaced in these two departments has more than 240,000, according to the International Migration Organization (Iom).
Between April and June, the security forces were able to slow down the expansion of the gang in the capital, but the United Nations Office in Haiti, Binuh. noted that the situation remains exceptionally volatile.
While they expand their territory, the gangs have committed human rights violations, according to the UN, including the rape of gangs, extrajudicial murders, children’s farms, trafficking and murder.
“The gang members continued to use murders, gang rapes and kidnappings to maintain their control over the populations living in areas under their influence,” said Binuh.
Different authors
The UN has long warned that gangs are not the only groups that commit violations and human rights violations in Haiti – government security forces and local self -defense groups also have engaged violations.
Of the 1,520 people killed and 609 injured between April and June, most of them were in the capital or the departments of the center and artibonite, with 24% of them killed or injured by gangs.
Gangs security operations represented 64% of deaths and injuries during this period, with 73 documented cases of summary executions and a third of deaths occurring following explosive drones.
The self -defense groups, which were formed in reaction against gangs and the inability of the security force to contain them, were responsible for 12% of people killed and injured.
Respect human rights
The humanitarian situation in Haiti is increasingly disastrous, with more than 1.3 million displaced people and half of the population faced with food insecurity.
With the humanitarian response plan only at 8%, the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (Ochha) calls on the international community to intensify financial support.
The report has also urged the international community to continue to increase the support of Haiti’s struggle against gangs.
“The report calls for the Haitian government, with the support of the international community, to strengthen the fight against gangs while strictly respecting human rights and standards on the use of force,” said the United Nations mission in Haiti.
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