Dominican Republic: 15 arrested, including Jesuit priest, protesting denationalization policies
(Washington, D.C.) March 13, 2013 — Fifteen activists were arrested Monday while conducting a peaceful protest outside the Dominican Republic’s Central Electoral Board in Santo Domingo. Among those arrested was Jesuit Father Mario Serrrano Marte, Executive Director of Centro Bonó, and several members of Reconoci.do.
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Dominican Republic: police crackdown on peaceful demonstrators
Santo Domingo, 14 August 2012 – Police in Monte Plata, a local council in the south of the Dominican Republic, yesterday cracked down on a group of young protestors peacefully demonstrating for their right to identity documents, the vote and participation in the society of birth.
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Dominican Republic: conference on statelessness and the right to nationality
Washington DC 15 October 2011 — As rising numbers of Dominican citizens of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic are having their nationality revoked by the Dominican government, an international coalition of leading human rights groups announced plans today to examine the legality of those actions and the impacts on people who have lost their nationality rights, in a one-day conference in Washington DC and a surrounding week of dialogue with Dominican advocates, US administration, Congress and other policymakers.
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Dominican Republic: school offers hope to Haitians
Pedernales, Dominican Republic, 05 May 2011 — Outside this small town on the southern coast, Jesuit Refugee Service is supporting an education project of the Altagracia Parish in the Diocese of Barahona.
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Dominican Republic: statement by US ambassador on Haitian migrants welcomed
Santiago, Rome, Washington DC, 24 February 2011, – The Jesuit Refugee Service has welcomed statements by the US authorities calling on the Dominican government to respect the human rights of Haitians in the country.
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Dominican Republic: mass deportations must stop
Santo Domingo, 12 January 2011 – Last week the Dominican Republic launched its first major crackdown on illegal Haitian migrants since last year's devastating earthquake, rounding up and deporting hundreds of people.
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Dominican Republic: JRS staff assaulted
Santo Domingo, 16 December 2010 – Jesuit Refugee Service staff in the Dominican Republic have reported being physically assaulted by police working for the national migration office. The event took place on the morning of 15 December, as part of a raid near the Centro Bonó building, a Jesuit social centre in which JRS is housed.
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Dominican Republic: 50 Haitians forcibly deported
Jimaní, 4 September 2010 – JRS has urged the Dominican authorities to establish transparent and expeditious procedures that ensure respect for human rights, including access to legal assistance, to all migrants arrested for the proposes of repatriation.
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Dominican Republic: more than 800 labour cases dealt with in 12 months
Santo Domingo, 3 May 2010 – In the last 12 months, JRS dealt with 811 cases of violations of migrant labour rights in the Dominican Republic, 87 of which are still in the courts, while 42 others are pending sentencing.
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Dominican Republic: Haitians used as scapegoats On 10 November, JRS Dominican Republic expressed concern about campaigns by extreme right-wing groups using the disarray in national migration policies to their own economic and political advantage by denying human rights to thousands of migrants.
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The Migration Law and the right to nationality in the Dominican Republic: the problems with the Supreme Court decision of 14 December 200 Migrants’ rights activists, including the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Dominican Republic, have been very surprised by the decision of the Dominican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) in relation to a case brought in Santo Domingo in June 2005. The applicants in the case had sought a ruling that 11 articles of the country’s new Migration Law are unconstitutional. Those who brought the case were not seeking to deny the State the capacity to decide about whose nationality it would recognise. Their objective was to show that the Dominican Constitution had already decided this issue (that jus solis – the rule that those born in the territory have the nationality of the territory – also includes the children of undocumented immigrants) and that the Migration Law violates this Constitutional decision.
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Dominican Republic: violent attacks on Haitians condemned On 2 Sep 2005 JRS described recent violent attacks on Haitians and Haitian-Dominican in the Dominican Republic as very worrying. Amidst a recent rise in xenophobic hostility against Haitians, scores of people have been attacked, and according to recent reports more than 13 people have been killed in just the last few weeks.
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Republica Dominicana: Las Metas del Milenio y el Derecho a la Nacionalidad Considero importante impulsar una reflexión sobre los Objetivos y Metas del Milenio, desde la perspectiva del derecho a la nacionalidad. Esto nos permitirá sacar esta declaración del marco de la categoría de “asunto” de Estado, para convertirla en un tema de interés para todos/as.
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Dominican Republic: mass explusions of Haitians continue Continuing what have been criticised as mass expulsions motivated by prejudice, Dominican authorities expelled some 300 Haitians over the weekend ending 25 July in the northern Dominican city of Santiago. The deputy regional immigration director in Santiago, Juan Isidro Perez, told the news agency, EFE, the majority of the Haitians repatriated were women and children who had been begging in the streets. He said several young men who were in the country irregularly who worked as shoeshine men and cleaned the windshields of cars at intersections and in plazas were also deported.
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Haiti: thousands forcibly deported from the Dominican Republic (DR) From 13 to 15 May, the Dominican State forcibly expelled more than 2,000 Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian origin and Black Dominicans to Wanament, northern Haiti, causing a humanitarian crisis in the town. The majority of those deported were women and children.
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