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Lawyers suing United Nations over cholera outbreak in Haiti
NEW YORK, CMC – Human right lawyers are seeking extensive financial damages from the United Nations following the 2010 cholera outbreak in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country, Haiti, that killed more than 8,000 people. The Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), which has filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in New York's Southern District,…
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This shameful scenario affecting the Haitian people
KINGSTON, Jamaica – BURDENED as they may be with their respective domestic, social, economic and political challenges, it is becoming increasingly evident that the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) has a moral obligation to ensure more focused attention by the international community on the widening problems and challenges facing the people of Haiti. The mind-blowing earthquake tragedy of January 2010 that…
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The Dominican Republic and Haiti: one island riven by an unresolved past
When Haiti was hit by the devastating earthquake in 2010, its island neighbour, the Dominican Republic, rushed to help. It was among the first to send rescue workers, food and water, and also allowed overseas relief agency flights to land at Santo Domingo airport. But three years on, the goodwill seems to have dissipated and old tensions resurfaced. Just over…
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T&T PM must lead Caricom in settling Haiti-DR dispute
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – From her busy schedule of travel and other obligations, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must make time for an ugly crisis engulfing two member states of Cariforum, which shares membership with Caricom, of which she also serves as chairman. The crisis has been triggered by a Dominican Republic constitutional court ruling that threatens a devastatingly disparate…
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Haiti disagrees with court ruling on migrants in Dominican Republic
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haitian officials on Saturday expressed strong disagreement with a Dominican Republic court ruling that denies citizenship to children of Haitian migrants. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs deeply regrets that Haitians and their Dominican descendants who have contributed significantly to the current progress of the Dominican Republic for their work and sacrifice are now treated as foreigners…
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Haiti’s top lawmakers head to Dominican capital amid ruling’s uproar
(Dominican Today) Santo Domingo.- Amid the uproar unleashed by the Constitutional Court ruling on the nationality of offspring of foreigners illegally in the country, Haiti’s two leaders of Congress will visit their Dominican counterparts toady Friday. Senate president Reinaldo Pared is slated to receive the Haitian lawmakers at 11am, although the reason for the visit by Senate President Simon Desras…
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Aviation pact lifts Dominican-Haiti ties trounced by high court ruling
Santo Domingo.- While a Dominican Republic high court ruling which jeopardizes mostly people of Haitian descent and prompted Port-au-Prince to recall its ambassador in Santo Domingo, an agreement on aviation has uplifted relations among the Hispaniola neighbors. The Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) on Monday signed a search and rescue agreement with Haiti and Canada’s National Civil Aviation Office in…
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Dominican Republic’s Haitian descendants in ‘constitutional limbo’: UN
GENEVA.- The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday condemned the Dominican Constitutional Court ruling which refuses nationality to offspring born in the country of undocumented parents, which mostly affects descendants of Haitians. “This decision deprives tens of thousands of people of a nationality, which will have a very negative impact on the rest of their…
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Haiti pulls envoy after DR court decision
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian government is recalling its ambassador in the Dominican capital in response to a court ruling from the neighboring Dominican Republic that strips citizenship from the children of Haitian migrants . The decision comes almost a week after a ruling by the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Court blocked citizenship for thousands of people born to Haitian…
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