Article: The Haiti Files - Part 2
The Haiti Files - Part 2
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277 sexual violence incidents. 200% more children recruited. One hospital. The bodies behind the numbers.
Yesterday covered the aggregate: 9,063 homicides, 1.45 million displaced, 18 percent funded. Today covers who is bearing that aggregate in the body. The documented harm to individuals in the Secretary-General's own report. Primary source: UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325.
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UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325 · April 14, 2026 · Sexual violence · Three-month window · Pattern documentation01 / 04
277 documented sexual violence incidents in one three-month window. 77 percent classified as collective rape. The Secretary-General's own data, placed before the Security Council.
The Secretary-General's report to the Security Council documented 277 incidents of conflict-related sexual violence in Haiti within a three-month reporting window. The report classified 77 percent of those documented incidents as collective rape. The report attributed the documented sexual violence to armed gang activity. The figures are drawn from UN monitoring conducted as part of the Secretary-General's formal reporting obligations to the Security Council. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
The Secretary-General's report noted that sexual violence was being used systematically in areas under gang control and in the context of displacement. Women and girls in displacement sites were among those documented as victims in the reporting period. The report identified sexual violence as a tool used to enforce gang territorial control and to terrorize populations in contested areas. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
277 documented incidents in one quarter represents the documented record, not the full incidence. The Secretary-General's report noted that underreporting of sexual violence in conflict settings is consistent and structural: fear of retaliation, absence of functioning health facilities, and stigma are factors the report identified as limiting documentation. What is recorded is a floor, not a ceiling. 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 · UN monitoring data on conflict-related sexual violence, Haiti
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UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325 · April 14, 2026 · UNICEF data · Child recruitment · Education access02 / 04
Child gang recruitment up 200% in 2025. 741,000 children facing barriers to education. The Secretary-General cited UNICEF data for both figures in his submission to the Security Council.
The Secretary-General's report cited UNICEF data documenting a 200 percent increase in child recruitment by armed gangs in Haiti in 2025 compared to the prior year. The report noted that armed gangs were actively recruiting children, including from displacement sites and school-age populations in gang-controlled areas. The recruitment figure is drawn from UNICEF monitoring data cited in the Secretary-General's formal submission to the Security Council. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · UNICEF data cited therein.
The Secretary-General's report recorded 741,000 children facing significant barriers to accessing education in Haiti. The barriers documented in the report included school closures due to gang violence and occupation of school buildings by armed groups, as well as displacement that separated children from their schools of enrollment. The education access figure is drawn from data cited in the Secretary-General's report. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · UNICEF data on education access, Haiti, cited therein.
A 200 percent increase in child recruitment by armed gangs, alongside 741,000 children cut off from education in the same reporting period, describes a generation being absorbed into a conflict and removed from the structures that would otherwise hold them outside it. Both figures are in the same Secretary-General's report. They describe conditions in the same country, in the same year, under the same international mandate. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
Source: United Nations Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · UNICEF data on child recruitment and education access, Haiti, cited therein
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UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325 · April 14, 2026 · Health system · Port-au-Prince · Advanced care capacity03 / 04
One hospital with advanced care capacity remaining operational in Port-au-Prince. The Secretary-General documented the collapse of the health system in Haiti's capital in his April 2026 report to the Security Council.
The Secretary-General's report documented that as of the reporting period, one hospital with advanced care capacity remained operational in Port-au-Prince. Other health facilities in the metropolitan area had been forced to reduce or suspend services as a result of gang activity, insecurity, attacks on health infrastructure, and staff displacement. The Secretary-General's report identified health system functionality as a critical humanitarian concern. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of Haiti. Its estimated population is approximately 3 million people in the metropolitan area. One operational advanced care hospital serving that population, in a context where the homicide rate is 76 per 100,000 and sexual violence is documented at 277 incidents per quarter, is a condition the Secretary-General placed on the record before the Security Council. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026.
The Secretary-General's report noted that the health system's capacity constraints had direct consequences for the treatment of trauma cases, obstetric emergencies, and cases of sexual violence. The report identified restoration of health service capacity as a priority for the humanitarian response. The Humanitarian Response Plan remained 18 percent funded as of the same reporting period. UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026 · UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti.
Source: United Nations Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026, submitted to the UN Security Council · Health system status, Haiti, as reported therein
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The question. Part 2 ends here. Part 3 drops next Monday.04 / 04
277 sexual violence incidents. 200% more children recruited. One hospital. The response plan 18% funded. Who is being sent back into this?
Part 3 of The Haiti Files drops next Monday. It covers the deportation record: 270,214 Haitians forcibly returned in 2025, a 36 percent increase over 2024, with 52,000 more deported by mid-March 2026. Returned into a country whose humanitarian response plan is 18 percent funded. What the international community is sending people back into, in its own deportation and funding numbers. Primary source: UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325.
Source: United Nations Secretary-General Report S/2026/325, April 14, 2026, submitted to the UN Security Council · UNICEF data cited therein
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The Haiti Files · Part 3 of 4 · Next Monday: The ReturnsPart 3 covers 270,214 Haitians forcibly returned in 2025 and 52,000 more by mid-March 2026 -- returned into a country where the humanitarian response is 18 percent funded. The international community's own deportation numbers, against its own funding numbers. Primary source: UN Secretary-General Report S/2026/325. Follow UNSILENCED for two new stories every week.