BINUH Press Releases

GENEVA and PORT-AU-PRINCE (14 October 2022) : A joint human rights report published by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH)and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)…

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 5, 2022: The United Nations and the humanitarian community in Haiti are deeply concerned about the serious consequences of the blocking of the Varreux Terminal on the humanitarian situation, in…

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2 October 2022: The United Nations is supporting efforts by the Government of Haiti to contain an outbreak of cholera and provide life saving measures following the confirmation of a positive case and…

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 24September 2022: The priority of the United Nations in Haiti remains to stay and deliver on its mandate and support the people and Government of Haiti, as they face ongoing insecurity and uncertainty…

Port-au-Prince, 1 August 2022: TheUnited Nations Integrated Office in Haiti(BINUH) issued today a report on the deadly wave of violence that broke out between 24 April and 16 May 2022, in the north and west of the Port-au…

GENEVA (26 January 2022) – Haiti’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 31 January 2022 in a meeting that will be…

Tribute to the victims of the earthquake of January 12, 2010 Today, 12 January 2022, the United Nations remembers the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who lost their lives and the many thousands more who sustained permanent…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 24 October 2021 The UN Humanitarian agencies operating in Haiti are extremely concerned over the deepening crisis resulting from roadblocks which are preventing the delivery of fuel supplies, posing obstacles…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 20 AUGUST 2021 – UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, on a two-day mission to Haiti, said the response to the country’s quake-related crisis presents an opportunity to forge greater national cohesion…

Port-Au-Prince, 18 February 2020.- A UN report on gang violence in Port-au-Prince has found that the Haitian authorities failed to adequately protect residents of a poor neighbourhood of the capital. The joint report by the…