The Caribbean
Dominican Republic: CARICOM condemns anti-immigrant ruling
A Dominican court’s ruling against some 200,000 people descended from Haitian immigrants has inspired protests in Haiti and New York.
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Haiti: UN force faces lawsuit, new accusations
Lawyers for the victims sue the UN for the cholera epidemic it brought to Haiti, while an international watchdog group reports on “peacekeeper” corruption.
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US accused of violating human rights in Puerto Rico
Residents of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico long used as a US Navy exercise range, brought a complaint before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.
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Dominican Republic excludes descendants of ‘illegal’ Haitians
The Dominican high court ruled that undocumented immigrants are “in transit,” depriving their Dominican children of citizenship—including all born since 1929.
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Haiti: jobs missing at US-funded industrial park
The US State Department promised 65,000 jobs from a US-funded industrial park in northern Haiti; after 11 months, the number of jobs is all of 1,500.
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Haiti: will case against rights lawyer be dropped?
The legal case against human rights attorney Florvilus is reportedly being dropped, but Florvilus and his staff still face death threats for their efforts to help earthquake victims.
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Haiti: lawyer for homeless threatened with arrest
Activist lawyers are concerned as two are threatened with arrest and a judge dies suddenly while investigating government corruption.
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Haiti: religious groups hold anti-LGBT march
More than 1,000 Haitians marched against a same-sex marriage bill that hasn’t yet been proposed, while LGBT people face real persecution from homophobes.
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Dominican Republic: ‘Haitians’ demand papers
As many as 200 Dominicans of Haitian descent gathered at the National Palace in the latest monthly protest against discriminatory policies that have left them in a legal limbo.
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Haiti: public university students protest tuition hike
State University of Haiti administrators backed off an effort to triple registration fees after students protested with a militant demonstration in downtown Port-au-Prince.
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Puerto Rico: Monsanto blows off legislative hearing
Biotech giant Monsanto does much of its research and development in Puerto Rico, but it holds in effect that it isn’t subject to Puerto Rican law.
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Haiti: activists protest UN troops, low wages
South American activists call for UN troops to leave Haiti, while Haitian unionists protest the government’s attempt to rewrite a minimum wage law via press release.