Denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent: Since the beginning of the International Law of Human Rights it has always given great importance the right to have a name and a nationality, the right to legal personality, including the very right to be registered at birth, and this is why they have It has been included in nearly all treaties and conventions formulated by the United Nations. Respect and exercise of these rights lead to guaranteed access to all other political and civil rights (like the right to vote, equality before the law, family) and economic, social and cultural rights (such as health and education), so for example as in my institution, the Movement of Dominican Haitian Women, we say we are fighting for the right to be entitled. Unfortunately, in Dominican Republic the enjoyment of the right to nationality is almost impossible for people of Haitian descent. For decades there has been de facto discrimination to access to identity documents, and since 2004, Dominicans of Haitian descent have faced a hostile onslaught of legislative changes and administrative policies that have further restricted the ability to exercise the right to nationality and identity that is guaranteed to us by the Dominican Constitution. Being discriminated because of our origin and our skin color, thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent have been rendered stateless, excluding us from the political, economic, social and cultural life of our country. An amendment made in January 2010 to the Constitution of the Republic threatens to make permanent this situation of discrimination and statelessness. All this has been quite documented by many international human rights organizations, for example, in 2008, the Committee on the Rights of the Child showed much concern of the fact that a large number of children of Haitian decedent are continually not being recorded, and the "pink certificate" could be used as an excuse to discriminate against children and deny them their right to a nationality. Also in that same report, the Committee expressed concern that our children, ie the children of Haitian immigrants and people of Haitian descent, have limited access to education, care health and social services that all children who are in the territory of the Dominican Republic and the world should have the same right in accordance with the Convention. In the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, the members of the working group recommended that the Dominican Republic "adopt measures to ensure that Dominicans of Haitian descent are not denied citizenship or access to civil registration procedures and that they are not arbitrarily subject to retroactive cancellation of birth and identity documents "and" apply policies and practices that are consistent and non-discriminatory citizenship ". Despite all the pronouncements made by international organizations and national organizations, the Dominican State through a series of legislative measures such as the Migration Act 2004 and the Constitution of 2010, judicial measures such as the judgment of the Supreme Court of 2005 and administrative measures as the Circular No.17 and No.12

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