Dominican Republic

Human Rights in DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Dominican Republic: Challenging discrimination in the Dominican ...
9 November 2008

Discrimination on grounds of race, language, skin colour and nationality is an everyday reality for many Haitian migrant workers and Dominicans of Haitian descent ...

Document       AMR 27/003/2008

Dominican Republic: Fear for safety/death threats
22 July 2008

People who appear to be linked to the authorities have abducted and assaulted a woman whose husband is of Haitian descent, and so faces official discrimination. ...

Urgent Action       AMR 27/002/2008

Dominican Republic: Further Information on UA 288/07: Fear for ...
11 January 2008

Johnny Rivas and his family are being intimidated by anti-migrant protestors as a result of his work as the coordinator of the Solidarity Associations of Migrant ...

Urgent Action       AMR 27/001/2008

Dominican Republic: Discrimination at Birth: Haitian Migrants and ...
18 December 2007

Dominican Republic: Discrimination at Birth: Haitian Migrants and their Descendants in the Dominican Republic. This focus sheet considers ...

Document       AMR 27/006/2007

Migrants’ rights are human rights | Amnesty International
18 December 2007

One person in every 35 lives outside the country in which they wereborn. Many of those are migrant workers or their family members.

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Dominican Republic: Forced eviction
5 December 2007

Scores of police and soldiers forcibly evicted 45 families including minors on 1 December 2007 from their homes in Villa Venecia de Pantoja, in Santo Domingo Province ...

Urgent Action       AMR 27/007/2007

The Wire, December 2007. Vol. 37, No. 11
1 December 2007

1) Needed but unwanted 2) Habeas corpus denied 3) Education system still failing Romani children in Slovakia 4) Training event addresses Roma discrimination in ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/011/2007

Dominican Republic: Fear for safety/ Death threats
2 November 2007

At midnight on 28 October 2007, a group of Haitian migrant workers and Dominicans of Haitian descent living in the community of Ranchadero were victims of a racist ...

Urgent Action       AMR 27/005/2007