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Dominican Court Ruling

Eso No Se Hace - Haitians in the Dominican Republic

Uptown Video: #EsoNoSeHaceRD

A message of solidarity from Washington Heights to the DR and the world. We will not accept the discriminatory ruling of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal against our Dominican brothers and sisters. Strip citizenship from 200,000 of our own citizens?…

Monday Mood Music: Rumai (El Haitiano) – Palito De Coco

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I find this story deliciously ironic in light of the much-deserved international outrage that was caused by the recent ruling of the highest court in the Dominican Republic, which rendered far too many Haitian-Dominicans stateless.…

11/15/13: A Night of Commitment and Action for Human Rights

This past September 23, the Constitutional Court (the highest court!) in the Dominican Republic ruled that thousands of Dominicans, who have lived as Dominican citizens, protected by the Constitution and current laws for over 8 decades, are to be…