The Haiti Files - Part 1
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9,063 homicides. 1.45 million displaced. 6.4 million in need. The Secretary-General's own figures.
The UN Secretary-General submitted a report to the Security Council on April 14, 2026. It contains the figures the international community uses to define Haiti's crisis. This episode reads those figures without reduction. Primary source: UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325.
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UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325 · April 14, 2026 · Homicide data · Security Council01 / 04
9,063 homicides in Haiti in 2025. A rate of 76 per 100,000. These are the figures the UN Secretary-General placed before the Security Council.
The United Nations Secretary-General's report on Haiti, document S/2026/325, was submitted to the Security Council on April 14, 2026. It recorded 9,063 homicides in Haiti in 2025, corresponding to a homicide rate of 76 per 100,000 population. The report covers the period of deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission and draws on data compiled under UN monitoring. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
The Secretary-General's report attributed the majority of killings to armed gang violence. The report noted that gang territorial expansion had continued during the reporting period, including in areas of Port-au-Prince and surrounding departments. Armed gang activity was documented as the primary driver of both the homicide rate and the displacement figures recorded in the same report. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
A homicide rate of 76 per 100,000 population places Haiti among the highest documented rates in the world in the year for which the Secretary-General reported. The figure is not a projection or a modeling estimate. It is drawn from monitoring data cited in the Secretary-General's formal submission to the Security Council, the body that authorized the Multinational Security Support Mission whose mandate the report assesses. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
Source: United Nations Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026, submitted to the UN Security Council · Multinational Security Support Mission, Haiti
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UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325 · April 14, 2026 · Displacement · IOM tracking data · Children02 / 04
1.45 million people displaced inside Haiti. Over half are children. Displaced into a country where the humanitarian response plan is 18 percent funded.
The Secretary-General's report recorded 1.45 million internally displaced persons in Haiti as of the reporting period. The figure draws on IOM displacement tracking data cited in the report. Of the 1.45 million displaced, over half were children, according to IOM data cited in the Secretary-General's submission. Displacement was concentrated in Port-au-Prince and departments where gang territorial expansion had occurred. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · IOM displacement tracking, Haiti.
The Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti, covering the period assessed in the Secretary-General's report, had received 18 percent of the funding it requested. The plan requested $880 million. Eighteen percent of $880 million is $158.4 million received against $721.6 million outstanding. The Secretary-General's report noted the funding gap explicitly as a constraint on the humanitarian response capacity. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti, funding status.
The combination of 1.45 million displaced, over half children, into a country with a humanitarian plan funded at 18 percent describes the condition of people displaced by gang violence landing in an environment where the international system committed to assist them has delivered less than one dollar in five of what it pledged. Both facts are in the Secretary-General's report. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
Source: United Nations Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · IOM displacement tracking cited therein · UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti, funding status as reported
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UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325 · April 14, 2026 · Food insecurity · IPC classification · Humanitarian need03 / 04
5.7 million people in acute food insecurity. 6.4 million requiring humanitarian assistance. Both figures from the Secretary-General's own submission to the Security Council.
The Secretary-General's report recorded 5.7 million people in Haiti in acute food insecurity, drawing on IPC Phase Classification data cited in the report. IPC Phase 3 and above, classified as crisis, emergency, or catastrophic, is the threshold for what the report describes as acute. 5.7 million represents approximately half of Haiti's estimated total population. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · IPC food security data, Haiti.
The same report recorded 6.4 million people in Haiti requiring humanitarian assistance. Against an estimated national population of approximately 11.6 million, 6.4 million represents more than half the population in a condition of documented humanitarian need. The Secretary-General placed both figures in a single report to the Security Council on the same date. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
The figures in this episode -- 9,063 homicides, 1.45 million displaced, 5.7 million in acute food insecurity, 6.4 million requiring humanitarian assistance, 18 percent of the response plan funded -- are from one document. Not different monitoring systems. Not different organizations. One report, submitted by the Secretary-General to the Security Council, April 14, 2026, document S/2026/325. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
Source: United Nations Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · IPC food security data cited therein · UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti
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The question. Part 1 ends here. Part 2 drops tomorrow.04 / 04
9,063 homicides. 1.45 million displaced. 6.4 million in need. The response plan 18% funded. The Secretary-General's own numbers raise the question. What does the Security Council do with them?
Part 2 of The Haiti Files drops tomorrow. It covers who is bearing the crisis in the body: 277 documented sexual violence incidents in one quarter, 77 percent collective rape, child recruitment up 200 percent, 741,000 children cut off from education, one hospital with advanced care capacity remaining operational in Port-au-Prince. The aggregate and the individual cost. Same document. Same date. Primary source only.
Source: United Nations Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026, submitted to the UN Security Council
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The Haiti Files · Part 2 of 4 · Tomorrow: The BodiesPart 2 covers the documented human cost behind the aggregate: sexual violence, child recruitment, education access collapse, and the health system reduced to one functioning hospital in Port-au-Prince. Primary source: UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325. Follow UNSILENCED for two new stories every week.