Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Dominican Republic is a member of the United Nations, and is party to numerous human rights treaties and covenants. Many of these documents have been integrated into the national human rights framework by way of ratification.
Dominican authorities maintain that the deportations are carried out in compliance with human rights. In October, Reuters footage captured dozens of migrants crammed into caged Dominican Republic ...
Women's rights in the Dominican Republic (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Human rights in the Dominican Republic" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Dominican Republic has a right of blood law, which bases nationality on ancestral lineage rather than land of birth. The country has a large population of Haitian migrant descendants who are not seen as citizens, and are considered "stateless" by some human-rights organizations.
LGBTQ people in the Dominican Republic face multiple challenges. Although homosexuality between adults in private is decriminalized, LGBTQ Dominicans still endure discrimination and violence due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Stigma and violence In a 2014 poll, almost three quarters, 73%, of people in the Dominican Republic alone have said that members of the LGBTQ ...
Solange Pierre (July 4, 1963 – December 4, 2011), known as Sonia Pierre, was a human rights advocate in the Dominican Republic who worked to end antihaitianismo, which is discrimination against individuals of Haitian origin either born in Haiti or in the Dominican Republic. [1] For this work, she won the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights ...
In a letter to the directors of Tate & Lyle dated 10 July 2009 he asserted that human rights violations continue in the Dominican Republic, which include "daily and systematic disregard for fundamental human dignity in the forms of “statelessness” (and its inherent lack of civil liberties), human trafficking, extreme poverty, child labor ...
Pages in category "Human rights abuses in the Dominican Republic" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .