New Act is ‘woeful solution’, Dominican government continues to deprive hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their right to nationality, says MRG
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A new Act in the Dominican Republic will deny citizenship to Haitian descendants, despite some having been in the country for over 80 years. The Act requires unregistered children with Haitian lineage to present documents proving that they were born in the Dominican Republic, and is a woeful solution to the situation of hundreds of thousands of people deprived of their nationality following a Constitutional Court ruling last year, says Minority Rights Group International (MRG).
‘The Dominican government has deployed yet another obstacle for this community, who were once essential labour to toil in the sugar cane fields, but are now almost forgotten.’ says Sofia Olins, MRG’s Head of Cultural Programmes.