Security Council Resolution 2743 (2024) [on Extension of the Mandate of the Un Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh) Until 15 July 2025]

S/RES/2743 (2024)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Security Council, under agenda item 140 The question concerning Haiti, published in 2024.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2021–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	S/RES/2743 (2024)	Security Council resolution 2743 (2024) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) until 15 July 2025]	—	—
2023	S/RES/2692 (2023)	Security Council resolution 2692 (2023) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) until 15 July 2024]	—	—
2022	S/RES/2645 (2022)	Security Council resolution 2645 (2022) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) until 15 July 2023]	—	—
2021	S/RES/2600 (2021)	Security Council resolution 2600 (2021) [on extension of the mandate of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) until 15 July 2022]	—	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

14 reports · 2022–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	S/2025/418	United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2743 (2024)
2025	S/2025/226	United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2743 (2024)
2025	S/2025/28	United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2743 (2024)
2024	S/2024/742	United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2743 (2024)
2024	S/2024/508	United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti report of the Secretary-General	S/RES/2692 (2023)

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Elections Good Offices Haiti Haiti Question Illicit Arms Trafficking Internal Security Small Arms Special Missions

What’s in this document?

26 operative paragraphs

Decides to extend, to 15 July 2025 the mandate of BINUH in accordance with its resolution 2476 (2019), headed by a Special Representative of the Secretary‑General of the United Nations, and the reporting requirements as specified in paragraph 1 of resolution 2645 (2022);

Reiterates the need for all Haitian stakeholders, including with BINUH’s support, to continue to advance a Haitian-led, Haitian-owned political process towards the holding of free and fair legislative and presidential elections, and with the full, equal, meaningful, and safe participation of women and the engagement of youth, civil society, and other relevant stakeholders through an inclusive inter-Haitian national dialogue, requests all Haitian stakeholders to urgently establish a Provisional Electoral Council, and reach an agreement on a sustainable, time-bound and commonly accepted roadmap for elections, and in this regard requests the government of Haiti to provide an update to the Council within 90 days on relevant progress and roadmap;

Calls on BINUH to develop a strategy in consultation with the government of Haiti on how it will continue to support a Haitian-led and Haitian-owned political process through its good offices role and to complement the efforts of neighbouring countries, regional and subregional organizations such as CARICOM, with the aim of promptly restoring democratic institutions and fostering participation of all sectors of Haitian society, including civil society, and supporting Haitian electoral authorities in advancing a political transition and update the Security Council on this strategy and its implementation in its quarterly reports through the Secretary-General;

Reiterates that BINUH’s police and corrections unit shall continue to comprise up to 70 civilian and seconded personnel to serve as police and corrections advisors to scale up its strategic and advisory-support to the training and investigation capacities of the Haitian National Police and recalls paragraph 2 of resolution 2645 (2022), which decides that BINUH’s human rights unit will include dedicated capacity to address sexual and gender-based violence including the identification of women’s protection advisers, and notes that this decision is in line with the United Nations Development Cooperation Framework;

Notes the challenges for BINUH in security, and urges the Haitian authorities to ensure necessary protection for UN personnel, and stresses the need to create necessary conditions for BINUH to resume its full presence and mandated capacity in Haiti for the execution of its mandate;

Reaffirms support for the effective implementation of BINUH’s mandate and encourages BINUH, while maintaining its focus on supporting a Haitian-led and Haitian-owned political process towards the holding of free and fair elections, to continue to implement key tasks for which BINUH already holds a mandate, including in the areas of advisory support to the Haitian National Police, including training on anti-gang tactics, human rights compliance and reporting, and community engagement strategies and including through field visits to departments outside Port-au-Prince if needed, avoiding any duplication of international efforts, good governance, community violence reduction, justice, including by providing support to public prosecutors’ offices and courts to improve the ability of national authorities to investigate, prosecute and adjudicate serious crimes, accountability, and human rights monitoring and reporting to advance disarmament, demobilization, dismantlement of gangs, and reintegration of gang members through non-military approaches, combating illicit arms and financial flows and border and ports management, and strengthen engagement with communities that have borne the brunt of gang violence, as security conditions permit and within its existing resources and capacity;

Emphasizes the need for necessary coordination among BINUH as the primary focal point for relevant UN agencies in Haiti, the MSS mission, Haitian authorities, and other international and regional partners, to ensure complementarity and avoid duplication of efforts, and to optimize international support for the Haitian National Police, reiterating the request in resolution 2699 (2023) to the MSS mission to cooperate with BINUH and relevant UN agencies, including but not limited to UNODC and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, to support the efforts of the Haitian National Police to re-establish security in Haiti, including efforts by the Haitian National police to combat illicit trafficking and diversion of arms and related materiel and to enhance management and control of borders and ports;

Reiterates its support to the Basket Fund for security assistance for Haiti developed with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and BINUH;

Emphasizes the importance of coordination between BINUH and relevant UN agencies with regard to external security assistance to Haiti, recalling the need to implement the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy on support for Non-United Nations Security Forces;

Reiterates the need for BINUH to take fully into account child protection as a cross-cutting issue throughout its mandate and to assist the authorities, including the Haitian National Police, in the protection of children including through dedicated child-protection capacity;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to monitor and report on violations and abuses affecting children in Haiti, encouraging the Secretary-General to utilize existing tools to this end, including in the annual reports on children and armed conflict, pursuant to Resolutions 1379 (2001), 1882(2009), 1998 (2011) and 2225 (2015);

Encourages BINUH to ensure that gender equality issues are addressed as a cross-cutting issue throughout its mandate, including by supporting women’s political participation and attention to sexual and gender-based violence, and the implementation of Haiti’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, and strengthen the inclusion of women’s civil society organisations in peacebuilding and humanitarian action;

Encourages BINUH, in close cooperation with relevant United Nations agencies, regional organizations, subregional organizations, and international financial institutions, to explore options to enhance the Haitian criminal justice sector in order to fight impunity and foster accountability;

Calls upon BINUH to support the Haitian Government to develop and implement a strategic communications plan including to counter misinformation and disinformation regarding the work of state institutions and the political process, within its existing resources and capacity;

Encourages BINUH, within its existing resources and capacity, in collaboration with the Sanctions Committee and other relevant entities to assist the Haitian authorities in raising awareness of the reporting mechanisms for potential violations of sanctions by sharing the detailed provisions of the territorial arms embargo, as outlined in paragraph 14 of resolution 2699 (2023), with the leadership of all relevant national institutions involved in its enforcement;

Strongly urges Member States, to implement the territorial arms embargo as set out in resolution 2699 (2023) and 2700 (2023) without delay to prohibit the supply, sale, or transfer of small arms, light weapons, and ammunition to non-State actors engaged in or supporting gang violence, criminal activities, or human rights abuses in Haiti, such as sexual and gender-based violence, as well as to take all appropriate steps to prevent their illicit trafficking and diversion, and expresses its readiness to take further appropriate measures in this regard as soon as possible, including the renewal of the measures imposed under resolutions 2653 (2022) and 2700 (2023);

Demands cooperation between Member States to prevent illicit arms trafficking and diversion, including through inspecting cargo to Haiti, in their territory, as necessary and in a manner consistent with national and international law, and through providing and exchanging timely and up to date information in order to identify and combat illicit trafficking sources and supply chains;

Requests BINUH to cooperate with the Sanctions Committee established pursuant to resolution 2653 (2022) and its Panel of Experts in order to facilitate the Panel’s work;

Requests BINUH to work with UNODC and other relevant UN agencies to support Haitian authorities in combating illicit trafficking and diversion of arms and related materiel as well as illicit financial flows and in enhancing management and control of borders and ports and to include the progress of relevant work in the Secretary-General’s regular report to the Security Council, and further commends the quarterly report of UNODC to the Security Council, concurrent with the reporting cycle of BINUH, through the Secretary-General, and in this regard reiterates its request to UNODC to continue its quarterly update which shall continue to focus on sources and routes of illicit arms and financial flows, relevant UN activities and recommendations;

Reiterates the importance of the engagement of UNODC and other relevant UN agencies in support of efforts against armed gangs, to enhance port security, to improve customs revenue collections, and to curtail illicit financial flows, and further emphasizes the need and importance of securing voluntary funding in support of these efforts;

Requests BINUH to provide available information on cases of gang violence, criminal activities and human rights abuses and violations, including sexual and gender-based violence, in Haiti, collected in carrying out BINUH’s mandate, as an annex to the Secretary-General’s report to the Security Council;

Encourages continued close collaboration and enhanced coordination between BINUH, the United Nations Country Team in Haiti, the MSS mission, regional organizations and subregional organizations and international financial institutions with a view to scaling up humanitarian support and helping the government of Haiti to take responsibility to realize the long-term stability, sustainable development, food security, disaster risk reduction, preparedness and resilience-building and economic self-sufficiency of the country and further encourages enhanced public strategic communication regarding BINUH’s mandate and specific role;

Emphasizes the importance of allowing and facilitating full, safe, rapid and unhindered humanitarian access and providing essential services to all people in need, and the full protection, safety and ensuring security of medical and humanitarian personnel and assets;

Urges all relevant actors including those with the ability to influence armed gangs, to act to stop the blocking of roads required for the supplying of and access to local markets and the damaging of sources of food, including crops and livestock, as well as medical and humanitarian supplies;

Encourages Member States, including countries in the region, to provide security support to the Haitian National Police in response to the appeal of Haiti and the Secretary-General, emphasizes the need for significant additional efforts to fulfill the budgetary and operational needs of the MSS mission, and in this regard further encourages Member States and regional organizations to provide voluntary contributions and support to the MSS mission in the form of financial, personnel, and in-kind commitments and requests the UN Secretariat to assist Member States which have made pledges to the Trust Fund in delivering their pledges;

Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.

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