Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: July 2026

Haiti

Women and girls in Haiti are disproportionately impacted by the ongoing crisis, including criminal violence enabled by arms trafficking. Drone strikes by security forces and private contractors, and disproportionate use of lethal force by police, also increasingly put Haitians at serious risk. Over 1.47 million people — 12% of the total population — are internally displaced, over half of whom are women and girls. Diverse women and girls comprise the majority of those targeted for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) by criminal groups, with displaced women and girls at particular risk and rape by multiple perpetrators the most commonly documented form of sexual violence. Women and girls are also frequently coerced into exploitative relationships with criminal group members. A weakened justice system, entrenched corruption and an under-resourced police force leave many victims and survivors without recourse. Many survivors, including LGBTIQ people, do not report sexual violence for fear of reprisal and stigmatization; in addition, displacement sites frequently lack reporting mechanisms. Ongoing violence limits access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care, including post-rape care. Access to safe abortion is also difficult despite partial decriminalization.

Haitian women remain sidelined in the political transition. Women occupy only three of 18 cabinet positions, well below the 30% minimum quota established by Haiti’s constitution. 

The Security Council should:

• Call for the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) authorized by Resolution 2793 (2025) to take all measures to prevent the unlawful use of force, harm to local populations and other abuses by establishing clear, mandatory and enforceable parameters that detail the operational and oversight measures for protection of the population, including by integrating gender, women and child protection advisers into planning and operations. Ensure GSF personnel receive training to support and respond to all survivors of SGBV and that female personnel are part of all operations, and promote full adherence to the UN Human Rights Due Diligence Policy.
• Call on the GSF to expand the presence of human rights monitors and provide them with adequate resources to effectively cover all areas where troops are deployed. Further, ensure that complaints mechanisms are effective and connected to existing local protection and service networks.
• Demand full compliance with the UN arms embargo on Haiti, and call on all Member States to take steps to stop the flow of arms in order to prevent further violence against Haitian women and girls. Request the availability of gender and SGBV expertise in the Panel of Experts supporting the sanctions committee, and the use of gender analysis in their reports and investigations.
• Urge the provision of comprehensive, gender-sensitive and age-appropriate support services for survivors of SGBV. Call on all actors, including the Government of Haiti and international partners, to prioritize ensuring effective and accessible prevention, protection and accountability mechanisms to address and deter sexual, reproductive and gender-based violence, such as the specialized judicial units tasked with investigating and prosecuting mass crimes.
• Demand respect for women’s human rights and equality, and condemn all violations thereof, including attacks on women human rights defenders (WHRDs), LGBTIQ human rights defenders, other civil society groups and aid workers, who must be able to operate freely and without fear of reprisal, violence, threats or harassment.
• Demand that all peace, security, transitional and political processes are Haitian-led and Haitian-owned, and ensure the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation and leadership of diverse women throughout. Call on the Prime Minister to take measures to realize the constitutionally-mandated 30% minimum quota for women’s representation, including through enforcement of the quota for electoral lists.
• Urge donors to fully fund the humanitarian response and allocate increased flexible, long-term and direct funding to grassroots women-led, women’s rights and LGBTIQ organizations.
• Urge all Member States to maintain temporary protection or refugee status for Haitians, and to refrain from forcibly returning Haitian migrants, in particular pregnant and postpartum women and unaccompanied children, to Haiti in accordance with international law.

Israel / Palestine

Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since October 2023 — which Palestinian, Israeli, international and UN experts, including the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), have concluded amounts to genocide — has killed over 73,000 Palestinians and injured over 173,000. Despite the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, Israel continues to commit acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, including through daily attacks and continued obstruction of humanitarian aid. Most critical civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including healthcare facilities providing SRH services, has been damaged or destroyed. Most people in Gaza remain forcibly displaced, with many living in overcrowded and unsafe conditions where women and girls face heightened risks of SGBV. Israeli laws banning UNRWA and restricting operations of international NGOs further threaten relief and civil society efforts. 

In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Israeli government has undertaken measures — some amounting to ethnic cleansing, war crimes or crimes against humanity — to expand illegal settlements at an unprecedented rate. Violent attacks by Israeli settlers have increased, including the use of SGBV, often with the complicity or support of Israeli security forces. Palestinian detainees, including women and girls, face grave violations including SGBV. UN and international experts have condemned Israel’s adoption of a law expanding use of the death penalty, which will effectively apply only to Palestinians and violates Israel’s obligations under international human rights law.

Meanwhile, discussions on Gaza’s future continue to exclude diverse Palestinians from positions of authority; this approach risks entrenching impunity and undermining Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

The Security Council should:

• Demand all parties fully comply with the ceasefire, including by immediately stopping all attacks on civilians, civilian infrastructure and humanitarian actors. 
• Demand Israel’s immediate compliance with all provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. All Member States must uphold their obligations to prevent and punish genocide.
• Demand an immediate end to the forcible transfer of civilians and to all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the OPT, including immediate cessation of Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank. Call on the Israeli government to hold settlers, and those who enable them, accountable for all forms of violence perpetrated against Palestinians.
• Demand immediate, safe, unhindered and expanded humanitarian access into and throughout Gaza, in line with the ICJ’s November 2025 advisory opinion and Resolutions 2728 (2024) and 2720 (2023). Demand respect for core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality, and reject any proposed aid modalities that do not adhere to these principles.
• Call on Israel to repeal legislation banning UNRWA and to lift restrictions on NGOs and civil society organizations.
• Call on Member States to support the humanitarian response, including by providing direct, flexible and consistent funding to those organizations best-placed to respond, including NGOs and local women’s rights, women-led and feminist organizations; and prioritize women’s participation and leadership in the humanitarian response.
• Condemn Israel’s recent amendments to the death penalty law and call for their immediate repeal.
• Demand an immediate halt to military assistance and the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to Israel while there is risk that they are used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international law.
• Urge all parties to immediately cease all acts of SGBV, and cooperate with independent, impartial investigations to monitor, collect and verify evidence, and report on human rights violations and abuses, including gender-based crimes, committed by all parties in Israel and the OPT. In line with the calls made by the Secretary-General, demand Israel immediately cease all acts of SGBV, ensure detainees are treated with dignity, and investigate and prosecute all allegations of SGBV against Palestinian detainees. Call for all justice and accountability efforts to be human rights-based, survivor-centered and non-discriminatory and designed and implemented in partnership with survivors. 
• Call on all Member States to take immediate measures to implement the findings of the July 2024 ICJ advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s unlawful occupation.
• Demand respect for the rights of diverse Palestinian women, and demand their full, equal, meaningful and safe participation in building peace and shaping post-conflict recovery. Ensure that all negotiations and discussions on the future of Gaza uphold the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination and the right of return of Palestine refugees.

Women Peace and Security

In the forthcoming Security Council open debate on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), all Member States should commit to:

• Affirming that women’s human rights and gender equality are central to the maintenance of international peace and security and conflict prevention; upholding international humanitarian and human rights law, including the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, in order to prevent and respond to all forms of SGBV; demanding diverse women’s full, equal, meaningful and safe participation in all aspects of peacemaking and transitional justice; and ensuring effective and accessible accountability mechanisms for all forms of SGBV.
• Protecting and upholding sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in accordance with international standards, including WPS resolutions, in all conflict situations, including access to contraception, safe abortion and maternal health care, and fully integrating and upholding these rights in all crisis prevention, response and recovery plans.
• Ensuring access to quality, survivor-centered and non-discriminatory health care and comprehensive support, including safe reporting mechanisms, SRH care, psychosocial support, legal services, access to justice, reparations and livelihood support.
• Stopping arms transfers when there is a substantial risk that they may be used to “commit or facilitate serious acts of gender-based violence or serious acts of violence against women and children,” in line with the Arms Trade Treaty; and taking immediate steps to reduce military expenditures, in line with the calls of the UN Secretary-General.
• Providing direct, accessible, long-term and flexible funding to, and promoting equitable partnerships with, local women-led, women’s rights and LGBTIQ organizations working to prevent, document and respond to SGBV.
• Swiftly and publicly condemning any attacks, including SGBV and digital attacks, against women and LGBTIQ human rights defenders and all women and LGBTIQ people active in public life; consistently implementing a zero-tolerance approach to any form of attack or reprisal against diverse women for their political participation, human rights and humanitarian work, peacebuilding activities or cooperation with the Security Council, and providing support and redress to those who experience reprisals; ensuring a safe and enabling environment in which women and LGBTIQ HRDs, peacebuilders and civil society leaders are protected and supported, and their legitimacy and rights are recognized; and eliminating any barriers to their work.
• Ensuring effective and accessible justice and accountability for SGBV, including reproductive violence, by upholding international humanitarian, human rights and criminal law, and actively supporting the gender-progressive, survivor-centered and intersectional development of international law addressing atrocity crimes, including through supporting gender-responsive amendments to the Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, as well as universal jurisdiction cases.
• Supporting the deployment of Gender Advisers and Women Protection Advisers in UN operations, in line with relevant WPS resolutions.