The UN body will analyze updated information from the last three months of 2023 on the sources and routes of illicit arms and financial flows, as well as the main challenges for the preservation of human rights and security.
The meeting will review reports prepared by the United Nations Integrated Mission in Haiti (Binuh) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
Among other aspects, the texts recognize the efforts for dialogue and political conciliation by Binuh, the Group of Eminent Persons of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and other national and international actors.
At the same time they emphasize challenges to the stability of the nation such as the decrease in the number of police or the expansion of the control of armed gangs.
The departments of Oeste and Artibonito continue to be affected by extreme insecurity characterized by indiscriminate violence by armed gangs attacking the civilian population and police units and infrastructure, according to the reports.
Meanwhile, in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, gang influence grew alarmingly to previously less affected areas such as Carrefour-Feuilles, Solino, Bon-Repos, Mariani and Léogâne.
Rising rates of homicides and kidnappings perpetrated by gangs forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, the testimonies collected indicate.
Between October 1 and December 31, Haitian authorities recorded 1,432 intentional homicides, of which 157 were of women, 24 of girls and 31 of boys, compared to 673 victims in the same period of the previous year.
In the same period, the number of kidnappings was 698 -258 women, 14 girls and 17 boys-, compared to 391 kidnappings registered on the same date in 2022.
Homicides recorded in 2023 increased by 119.4 percent over the 2022 figures, with 4,789 victims last year (465 women, 93 boys and 48 girls), equivalent to a ratio of 40.9 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.
The number of people kidnapped per year also jumped from 1,359 in 2022 to 2,490 in 2023, representing an increase of 83 percent.
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