In his 2025 annual report (S/2025/247) on children and armed conflict (CAAC), the Secretary-General (SG) listed the Viv Ansanm coalition for the recruitment and use and the killing and maiming of children, rape and other forms of sexual violence against children, and attacks on schools and hospitals. The SG’s latest report on Haiti, documented child casualties, including 12 girls and 44 boys among victims of intentional homicide recorded between 1 September and 30 November 2025. Sexual violence remained widespread, with 449 incidents documented involving 466 victims, including 35 girls and 1 boy. Violence further disrupted access to education, with more than 1,600 schools closed and 25 occupied by armed groups, affecting 243,000 students and 7,500 teachers. In addition, UNICEF recently reported that child recruitment by armed groups had increased by an estimated 200 per cent in 2025. OCHCR verified the killing of 54 children and maiming of 40 between 1 March 2025 and 15 January 2026. In April, the SG will report on the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) per SCR 2814 (2026). The Security Council should:
- Call on all parties to take immediate and concrete steps to end and prevent rape and other forms of sexual violence against children, ensure survivors have access to comprehensive, gender-sensitive, and age-appropriate response systems and services, and strengthen preventive measures;
- Urge all armed gangs to immediately release all children under 18 from their ranks and end and prevent all child recruitment and use, the killing and maiming of children, their abductions; reiterate that children associated with armed forces and gangs should be treated primarily as victims, and their reintegration should be prioritized; encourage the Government of Haiti to fully and consistently implement its 2024 handover protocol on the transfer and reintegration of children allegedly associated with armed gangs and the release of detained children to civilian actors, including through sufficient child protection capacities;
- Call on the Viv Ansanm coalition to adopt action plans with the United Nations to end and prevent grave violations against children;
- Call on Member States participating in the GSF to establish an oversight mechanism to prevent human rights violations or abuses, in particular sexual exploitation and abuse, to deploy dedicated child and Women’s Protection Advisers;
- Ensure that the GSF prioritizes and mainstreams the protection of children throughout its mandate in all the planning and conduct of its operations, including through capacity-building; supports the release and recovery of children from armed gangs and their immediate handover to civilian child protection actors, and provides protection to and facilitates access for child protection actors to affected children;
- Urge donors to swiftly mobilize additional flexible funds to support the humanitarian response in Haiti, including resources for child protection and reintegration programs.
PANAMA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE THE SECURITY COUNCIL PENHOLDERS ON HAITI.
