Racial Discrimination
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Dominican Republic Set to Appear Before UN Human Rights Council
This will be the third time that the country will have to respond to the Council. However, to date, the State’s compliance with the recommendations of the member States has been minimal.
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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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Dreams Still Deferred
Assessing denationalization in the Dominican Republic, one year after our report.
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RFK Human Rights Co-Organizes Hearings on Police Killings
Tags Share CAITLIN CALLAHAN On December 7th, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights co-organized a Thematic Hearing on impunity for police killings within the United States before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A recording of the full hearing can be found here. The testimony provided by family members and activists focused on the barriers families…
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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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Bending Our Universe Towards Racial Justice
The terrorist attack in Charlottesville on August 12 serves as a sobering reminder that racist attitudes and structural racism are very much part of our world’s current landscape.
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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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The Justice System Failed Rekia Boyd and Her Family
Rekia’s killing was an avoidable tragedy. The failure to secure accountability in the criminal justice system was avoidable, too. We must work to ensure that these failures aren’t repeated again.
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Police Violence Against Black Americans
A thematic hearing submission to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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