A United Nations report has exposed four confirmed cases of sexual abuse involving foreign forces deployed in Haiti to fight ruthless gang violence.
The incidents all took place in 2025 and point to members of the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission.
Three of the victims were children who were raped. The fourth was an 18-year-old who suffered sexual violence.UN human rights investigators looked into every allegation and found them all to be true. The cases have been handed over to the mission’s own authorities for further investigation and action.
One of the cases involving a 12-year-old was handled internally by the mission itself.
The others were examined by the UN Human Rights Office.The mission has since been rebranded as the Gang Suppression Force with a tougher mandate to take on armed groups across the country.
Fresh troops, including from Chad, have just arrived to strengthen the operation.
Haiti has been living through years of nightmare-level chaos. Ever since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by mercenaries in 2021, powerful gangs have seized control of large parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. They kidnap, kill, and terrorise ordinary families, forcing more than a million people from their homes and blocking roads and ports so medicine and food can’t get through.
The international force was supposed to back up local police and push back against the gangs.
But it has been hampered by shortfalls in money and manpower, and many Haitians say daily life has barely improved.This is not the first time foreign troops in Haiti have faced serious accusations.
After the massive 2010 earthquake, United Nations peacekeepers were blamed for fathering dozens of children with local women and then abandoning them.Rights experts have reacted strongly to the latest findings.
They stress that four cases are four too many and are demanding independent probes, prosecutions where the evidence holds up, total transparency, and real justice for the victims — with no one allowed to escape punishment.As the new Gang Suppression Force steps up its fight against the gangs, the report stands as a painful reminder: the people sent to protect civilians must be held to the highest standards themselves.