CARICOM statement on developments in the aftermath of the ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on nationality

CARICOM – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) condemns the abhorrent and discriminatory ruling of September 23, 2013, of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on nationality which retroactively strips tens of thousands of Dominicans, mostly of Haitian descent, of citizenship rendering them stateless and with no recourse to appeal