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B100430/2025

B100411/2025

Motion for a European Parliament resolution on the humanitarian and security situation in Haiti, in particular the rising power of criminal gangs and the recent massacre in Cabaret

The European Parliament,

– having regard to Rule 150 of its Rules of Procedure;Procedure,

having regard to its previous resolutions on Haiti, notably that of 6 October 2022;

A. Whereas in September 2025, Cabaret was hit by a deadly gang attack following the killing of a local gang leader;

Whereas the humanitarian situation in Haiti has steadily worsened over recent years amid persistent insecurity; whereas since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, armed gangs have increasingly entrenched their power;

B. Whereas Haiti’s political institutions remain paralyzed with no viable post-2026 governance plan, while the underfunded Multinational Security Support Mission faces personnel and equipment shortages; whereas the Security Council authorized its transition to the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), funding sources remain unclear;

Whereas in September 2025 a massacre in the commune of Cabaret, following the killing of a local gang leader, triggered brutal reprisals by armed groups that left dozens dead, homes burned, and hundreds displaced;

C. Whereas in the first eight months of 2025, over 4,000 homicides occurred and nearly 1.4 million people, half of them children, were internally displaced despite the absence of a comprehensive plan;

Whereas by mid-2025, gang violence has claimed nearly 5,000 lives between October 2024 and June 2025,

D. Whereas the assassination of President Moïse in 2021, disputed leadership, rising gang federations like the G9 Family and Allies led by Jimmy Chérizier (“Barbecue”), and pervasive corruption have undermined Haiti’s government, eroded public trust and fuelled widespread social unrest and political instability;

Whereas, according to UN reporting and Security Council documents evidence, drugs are being transited through Haiti to markets in the U.S. and Europe;

E. Whereas criminal gangs, enjoying near-total impunity, have entrenched parallel governance across Haiti, using assault, looting, massacres, and sexual violence to instil fear and consolidate control, leaving girls and women especially vulnerable and survivors with limited access to protection and care;

Whereas Haitian gangs’ primary revenue sources include ransom from kidnapping, control of informal markets (fuel, food), extortion, robbery, trafficking with small arms, and increasingly, and the facilitation of transnational illicit flows (drugs and migrants);

F. Whereas the expansion of gang rule has prompted the rise of self-defence brigades, some of which reportedly operate in coordination with the police, further fuelling violence;

Whereas South American large transnational cartels (Colombian producers, Mexican distribution networks, regional Venezuelan-linked flows) control production and the higher-level organization;

G. Whereas Haiti is facing harsh migrations policies from the United States (US) and the Dominican Republic, with the US planning to end Temporary Protected Status and significantly reducing humanitarian aid, suspending around 80% of funded programs.

Whereas in 2025 the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti suffered significant casualties, with one Kenyan police officer fatally shot while assisting residents in Pont-Sondé in February and another killed in a September armored vehicle accident that also injured eight soldiers;

1. Calls on the transitional government to prioritize justice, humanitarian aid and reparations for survivors of sexual violence; coordinate and implement all security measures;

Whereas in September 2025, thanks to the diplomatic efforts of the United States, the United Nations Security Council approved the deployment of a new international security force.

2. Calls on all Haitian political, social, and economic actors to forge a national pact to ensure stabilization and prevent armed group financing and trafficking of weapons;

Strongly condemns the acts of violence and destruction carried out by gangs in Haiti, and deplores the looting of food and aid supplies and attacks against humanitarian workers; denounces, in particular, the acts of violence carried out the massacre in the commune of Cabaret and expresses solidarity with the victims’ families and loved ones;

3. Calls on the EU to support comprehensive demobilization, reconciliation, and reintegration programs, especially for children, and to address stigma, cycles of revenge, and human rights violations, including through concrete efforts to promote peacebuilding;

Firmly condemns the widespread use of sexual violence by gangs and the recruitment of minors in gang activities, which violate international human rights and humanitarian law; stresses that such continuing violence gravely deprives citizens of their fundamental rights to security, dignity, and protection, and deepens the humanitarian crisis in the country;

4. Call on the EU to increase meaningful support for urgent humanitarian needs and long-term development, while establishing strict monitoring mechanisms to ensure that all funding directly benefits Haitian people, safeguards the enjoyment of human rights, and effectively meets their humanitarian needs;

Demands an immediate cessation of gang violence and criminal activities and welcomes the decision of the United Nations Security Council to authorize the deployment of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF), a strengthened international security contingent of police and military personnel with the mandate to crack down on gangs activity;

5. Calls on the EU to adopt a coordinated, long-term coherent strategy, with binding commitments and adequate funding to support security, development and political transition in Haiti, ensuring the active participation of Haitian civil society, and backing the establishment of a full-fledged UN mission;

Highlights the importance of the main and still active players in civil society, including churches, trade unions, youth and human rights organisations, and calls for the restoration of the power and legitimacy of public institutions;

6. Calls on the EU to ensure that the new GSF is backed by clear funding, increased personnel, operational bases, accountable donor commitments, and transparent operations that uphold Haitian sovereignty, protect human rights, and address root causes of instability;

7. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the institutions ofCouncil, the European Union,Commission, the institutionsVice-President of the CARIFORUM,Commission the/ OrganizationHigh Representative of Americanthe StatesUnion andfor theForeign GovernmentAffairs and ParliamentSecurity ofPolicy, Haiti.the Haitian authorities.