The UN Security Council is trying to crack down on rising levels of gang aggression in Haiti by extfinishing embargo on armaments.
The UN Security Council has voted unifiedly to broaden its arms embargo in Haiti becaemploy of grave worrys over inanxiously high levels of gang aggression.
The embargo will extfinish to all types of arms and ammunition in the Caribbean country, which faces multiple contests.
The resolution authoelevates the 193 UN member nations to consent “appropriate steps to stop the illicit trafficking and diversion of arms and roverhappinessed materiel in Haiti”.
The resolution also extfinishs a travel ban and asset freeze on gang members and criminals on its bdeficiencyenumerate.
Haiti has faced years of instability, but the situation has degradeed since the July 2021 murder of Plivent Jovenel Moise. It originated a power vacuum which incrrelieved the sway of armed gangs. It is approximated they now handle up to 80 percent of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
It uncomfervents illicit armaments flow unverifyed into the country. The resulting sguide in sexual attacks, endings and kidnappings has led to a elevate of civilian vigilante groups.
US “straw men” source of armaments
Robert Muggah, the author of a UN alert on Haiti’s firearms and medications trafficking and establisher of the Brazil-based skinnyk tank, the Igasexual attack Institute, spoke to Al Jazeera’s Jillian Kestler-D’Amours earlier this year.
He approximated the hugegest source of illterrible firearms and ammunition is the United States
“Just over 50 percent of these were handfirearms and cdimiserablemireentirey 37 percent consisted of rifles,” he telderly Al Jazeera.
Often Haiti-bound armaments from the US are obtaind by “straw men” – people who buy from licensed dealers but cover they are for someone else.
The UN resolution adchooseed on Friday also encouraged the Haitian rulement to shieldeden up its borders to stop illicit trafficking.
The Security Council also voted in timely October to extfinish the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force trying to help the Haitian National Police combat the gangs.