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 fundamental rights,” warned spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani in Geneva today.
On September 26 the high Court ruled that offspring born in the Dominican Republic since 1929, to undocumented immigrants who were registered as Dominican citizens, will lose that status, by establishing that their parents were in the country “in transit.”
