Dominican Republic
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Combating Statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Tags Share In 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued a landmark ruling, Judgment 168-13, which retroactively took away citizenship rights from Dominicans of Haitian descent. In the five years since, the issue of statelessness has only grown more complex, leaving countless Dominicans of Haitian descent without access to nationality documents. Far from…
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Briefing: ‘Dreams Deferred’
Tags Share The Coordinator of the umbrella organization Dominican@s por Derecho and the Director of the Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (CEDESO, Center for Sustainable Development), Beneco Enecia requested that Dominican authorities accept the responsibility of finding a definitive solution to the problems Judgment 168/13 has caused tens of thousands of people, particularly as Law 169-14…
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Open Letter to Dominican President Medina on Anniversary of Judgment 168-13
Tags Share Santo Domingo, September 23, 2017 The Honorable Danilo Medina Sánchez President of the RepublicHand Delivered/ Palacio Nacional Distinguished President Medina: The organizations that comprise the Dominican@s por Derecho platform write to communicate our sadness and a clear message to which we have beared witness: Law 169-14 has not resolved the problems created by…
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Judgment 168-13: Four Years Later
Four years after the watershed ruling, Judgment 168-13, we look at the ongoing legal and political struggle to ensure the citizenship rights of all Dominicans are restored.
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Why Dominicans of Haitian Descent Struggle to Have Their Nationality Recognized
Tags Share Download the full report: “Dreams Deferred: The Struggle of Dominicans of Haitian Descent to get their Nationality Back Download the full report in Spanish For tens of thousands of Dominican citizens of Haitian descent who are unable to get a national identity card, called a cédula, the future is worryingly uncertain. Yafreisi is…
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Dreams deferred: The struggle of Dominicans of Haitian descent to get their nationality back
Tags Share On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued Judgment 168-13, ruling that it did not recognize the right to Dominican citizenship of hundreds of thousands of its citizens because they were the children of nonresident foreigners. The decision applied retroactively to generations of people who were born in the…
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Organizations Call on Dominican Government to Investigate Attack on Human Rights Defender
Tags Share (Washington DC | September 28th, 2016) Last Sunday September 25, at 7:30 in the evening, Genaro Rincon, a lawyer and activist with the organizations Movimiento Socio-Cultural Para Los Trabajadores Haitianos (MOSCTHA) and Derechos Vigentes was attacked, beaten, and threatened with death on a public bus in Santo Domingo by two individuals after identifying…
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Rights for Dominican Women Regress to the 19th Century
Tags Share In a recent decision, the Dominican Republic’s highest court struck down protections that allowed women to have an abortion in cases where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, where the fetus is deformed, or where continuing the pregnancy places the woman’s life in danger. The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision reinstates a total ban…
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Dominican Republic Must Restore Citizenship to Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | September 23, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses ongoing concern over the unresolved violations of the right to nationality for Dominicans of Haitian descent and treatment of migrants in the Dominican Republic two-years after the Constitutional Court retroactively stripped over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship, in…
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Unresolved Violations of the Right to Nationality for Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | September 23, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses ongoing concern over the unresolved violations of the right to nationality for Dominicans of Haitian descent and treatment of migrants in the Dominican Republic two-years after the Constitutional Court retroactively stripped over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship, in…
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Briefing Paper: Denationalized Dominicans and Haitian Migrants at Risk
Tags Share Upon expiration of the National Regularization Plan for undocumented migrants and the end of the Dominican Republic’s official moratorium on deportations on June 17, 2015, tens of thousands of denationalized Dominicans and hundreds of thousands of migrants will be left unprotected from the discriminatory migration policies of the Dominican Republic. Individuals arbitrarily deprived…
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New Amicus Brief Defends Access to Abortions in Dominican Republic
Tags Share (May 8, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed an amicus curiae brief this week before the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic urging the Tribunal to uphold the constitutionality of a recent amendment to the Penal Code that decriminalized access to abortion when the woman’s life is at risk…
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