The United Nations reported that as of mid-2025, no human rights violations by members of the Multinational Security Support Mission had been documented — a record that represented a significant improvement over the human rights legacy of the previous international security presence in Haiti and that the mission’s leadership cited as evidence that the accountability frameworks embedded in the MSS mandate were working.
The mission had developed specific human rights safeguards as part of its operational framework: a complaints mechanism accessible to community members, a 24/7 toll-free hotline for reporting violations, human rights monitoring embedded within the mission structure, and a clear policy framework prohibiting the types of conduct that had marred MINUSTAH’s record. These mechanisms reflected direct lessons learned from the cholera introduction and sexual exploitation scandals of the previous mission.
The clean human rights record was particularly notable given the difficulty of the operational environment. MSS personnel were conducting joint operations with Haitian police in contested urban terrain, facing armed and dangerous gang fighters, and operating in communities that had experienced extreme trauma and had limited trust in security forces of any kind. Maintaining professional standards under these conditions required sustained institutional commitment.
Human rights organizations welcomed the MSS’s clean record while noting that the mission’s small scale limited its overall impact on the security situation. They called for the accountability frameworks developed by the MSS to be maintained and strengthened as the mission transitioned to the Gang Suppression Force, arguing that the human rights credibility the MSS had established was one of its most important achievements and needed to be preserved in the successor force.