Haiti
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World Refugee Day: Despite obstacles, RFK Human Rights, others continue fight to end Title 42
Tags Share Last summer, when Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance received the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, she seized the occasion to advocate for an end to Title 42, a Trump administration policy that allows U.S. border officials to expel refugees back to Mexico or their home…
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Kerry Kennedy is a great supporter of my work, says Haitian health rights champion Loune Viaud
Tags Share In 2002, when Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights named Loune Viaud its Human Rights Award recipient, she was at the forefront of a rights-based campaign in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Haiti. For a period of five years after receiving the award, Viaud said Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights provided her with the…
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Human Rights Award ‘21 honors Guerline Jozef, issues Call to Action to stop Title 42
Tags Share I’m honored to be joined here today with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award laureate Wyclef Jean. The last time we were together in person, we were walking through one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Port-au Prince, where Wyclef was helping young men transform their lives. I…
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Expresamos Preocupación por la Construcción de la Cerca Fronteriza Dominicano-Haitiana y su Determinación de Toda la Información Relacionada Como ‘Clasificada
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresa su preocupación por la declaración de la construcción de una verja fronteriza como una “emergencia” por parte del gobierno dominicano. El Estado ha asignado al Ministerio de Defensa la dirección del proceso y ha decidido mantener toda la información relacionada como “reservada”. Como se explicó recientemente, la…
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Construction of Dominican-Haitian Border Fence Causes Concern
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses concern about the Dominican Republic’s government declaration of the construction of a fence on the Dominican-Haitian border as an ‘emergency’. The Government has assigned the Ministry of Defence to spearhead the process and has decided to keep all related information as “classified.” As explained recently, the fence…
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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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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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