Thursday, March 13, 2014

Association of Black Anthropologists condemns DR's racist deportations of Dominicans of Haitian descent

The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) condemns the recent ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court on September 23, 2013 (Ruling 0168-13), which has created a volatile human rights crisis in the Dominican Republic. As other outraged organizations like Amnesty International, CARICOM (Caribbean Community), the Haitian Studies Association, the National Bar Association, and the governments of Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have observed, the court ruling does the following:

    It strips citizenship from the offspring of non-resident Haitians born in the Dominican Republic where nationality is conferred by place of birth;
    It denies Dominican children of Haitian descent the right to an identity and nationality;
    It overlooks the due process of law; and
    It disregards the binding character of decisions made by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in favor of Haitian-descended Dominicans.


As a result of the ruling, people of Haitian descent are being stripped of their rights and deported.

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