Patricia Pou Jové
Human Right Organizations Must Act on Dominican Injustice
On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic decreed that all persons born to non-Dominican parents after 1929 are denied Dominican citizenship; this measure has stripped more than 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of Dominican citizenship. Several individuals and entities, from human rights groups to prominent members of the Dominican diaspora, have […]