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#HurricaneIrma is moving west over the Caribbean and Haiti is e️xpected to be one of the affected areas. Despite the ongoing withdrawal of our peacekeepers in the country due to its upcoming closure, our UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) has joined...
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#HurricaneIrma is moving west over the Caribbean and Haiti is e️xpected to be one of the affected areas.

Despite the ongoing withdrawal of our peacekeepers in the country due to its upcoming closure, our UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) has joined our humanitarian colleagues in their preparedness efforts. The Mission deployed units and engineering capabilities to Saint-Marc to be ready to open main roads to the north of the country, and both military and police officers are ready to be deployed in support of the Police Nationale d'Haiti - PNH.

The United Nations Country Team is fully supporting the CDEMA - Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency and Haitian authorities, and OCHA Haiti has already deployed staff to the northern parts of the country.

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Elections materials are collected from Anjou, a small town in the mountains above Haiti’s capital, Port au Prince, by Chilean #peacekeepers with the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) after Haiti’s general elections held on Sunday November 20, 2016. 


Credible and transparent elections are one of the key first steps for post-conflict societies to establish long lasting peace and security. Our peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been supporting the Haitian elections by providing security and helping with delivery and retrieval of electoral materials.
Photo by: Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes the holding of elections in Haiti on 20 November.  He salutes the people of Haiti for having peacefully expressed their democratic right to vote. The Secretary-General stresses that this electoral process is crucial to ending the current governance vacuum in Haiti, and he urges all actors to await the results proclaimed by the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and only use legal channels for any eventual challenges.

In these images, captured by a photographer serving with our peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), poll workers are seen late into the night counting ballots. MINUSTAH assisted national authorities in distributing election materials to polling stations across Haiti ahead of Sunday’s election.

Read the Secretary-General’s full statement here: http://bit.ly/2firJHV

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There are more than 2,600 police officers, from 44 countries, serving with our peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Brigadier General Georges-Pierre Monchotte explains how UN Police in #Haiti are doing their part to contribute to the maintenance of security and law and order in the country as well as with the recovery efforts underway in Haiti on the aftermath of #HurricanMatthew.

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10th anniversary of Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Programmes in UN Peacekeeping! The 16 November will be the tenth anniversary of the implementation of Community Violence Reduction programmes in UN Peacekeeping. Community Violence Reduction...

10th anniversary of Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Programmes in UN Peacekeeping!

The 16 November will be the tenth anniversary of the implementation of Community Violence Reduction programmes in UN Peacekeeping. Community Violence Reduction (CVR) programmes are community-driven programmes that aim to combat insecurity through mediation and development of alternative livelihoods for youth involved in armed violence. The first CVR programme in UN Peacekeeping was established in Haiti when the Security Council requested MINUSTAH in resolution 1702 (2006) to “reorient its disarmament, demobilization and reintegration efforts…towards a comprehensive community violence reduction programme adapted to local conditions, including assistance for initiatives to strengthen local governance and the rule of law and to provide employment opportunities to former gang members, and at-risk youth.”

In Haiti (MINUSTAH), CVR projects have improved security in some of the most marginalized and violence-prone areas through projects that include setting up vocational training schools for disenfranchised youth and providing alternative income for them through a variety of infrastructure projects. In Mali (MINUSMA) local women, an often underemployed and vulnerable group, were provided with income through a CVR sanitation project. In Central African Republic (MINUSCA) the CVR team helped organize an infrastructure restoration project in Mbres that provided alternative livelihoods for ex-combatants in the community.

Today CVR programmes are deployed in six peacekeeping missions including: MINUSCA, MINUSMA, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, UNAMID, and UNOCI

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Haiti this weekend to assess the damage done by Hurricane Matthew and show solidarity with the Haitian people. Haiti is currently facing its largest humanitarian disaster since the 2010 earthquake.

Our peacekeeping mission in the country, MINUSTAH, is working with local authorities and UN relief agencies to support food and aid delivery. The Mission is also carrying out essential engineering work to tackle damage done by the hurricane.

http://bit.ly/2dvaJR4

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Images of the damage done by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, taken by our peacekeepers earlier today.

According to preliminary reports, Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 108 people in Haiti. The UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team and the government of Haiti will conduct joint assessments of damage done with other humanitarian partners. Our peacekeeping mission in the country (MINUSTAH) has been providing logistical assistance to the Haitian authorities and the UNDAC team.

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