Unit­ed Na­tions Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, An­to­nio Guter­res, said on Mon­day that Haiti con­tin­ues to ex­pe­ri­ence “mas­sive hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions”, even as ef­forts con­tin­ue to bring about peace and sta­bil­i­ty in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

Ad­dress­ing the Hu­man Rights Coun­cil, Guter­res said that more than a mil­lion peo­ple have been dis­placed, and chil­dren con­tin­ue to face “a hor­rif­ic in­crease in sex­u­al vi­o­lence and re­cruit­ment in­to gangs.

“In the com­ing days, I will put for­ward pro­pos­als to the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil for greater sta­bil­i­ty and se­cu­ri­ty for the peo­ple of Haiti, name­ly through an ef­fec­tive UN as­sis­tance mech­a­nism to sup­port the Mul­ti­lat­er­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sup­port mis­sion, the na­tion­al po­lice and Hait­ian au­thor­i­ties”.