Dominican Republic: Stateless people are no-rights people

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OPEN EDITORIAL

 By Chiara Liguori, Amnesty International’s researcher on The Caribbean

There is one question everybody should be asking today at the United Nations in Geneva, as a panel of experts reviews the Dominican Republic’s human rights record: why are they stripping hundreds of thousands of people of their nationality?

Dominicans of Haitian descent have long been waiting for