30287: Roebling (news) Campaign on Haitian rights (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Elizabeth Roebling <lizieames@yahoo.com>

      Campaign to be launched accusing Dominican Republic of enslaving Haitians 
Published on Friday, March 30, 2007  Email To Friend    Print Version
  By Rosa Rodriguez
Caribbean Net News Dominican Republic Correspondent
Email: rosa@caribbeannetnews.com
  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: International organisations are reportedly 
preparing to launch a US$30 million international campaign accusing the 
Dominican Republic of enslaving Haitians that work in the country and of 
denying Dominican nationality to Haitians that were born here.

The month-long programme is scheduled to start in France in May.

The key figures behind the campaign are Catholic priests, Christopher Hartley, 
who is related to Spanish nobility and is close to the monarchs of Spain, and 
Pedro Ruquoy. Hartley was asked to leave the country when his superior, Bishop 
Francisco Osoria, expelled him from the diocese, reportedly after uncovering 
Hartley's participation in criminal activities.

Ruquoy also left the country shortly after it was discovered that he was 
declared as the father of several children of illegal Haitian parents so these 
could get their Dominican birth certificates.

Another key figure mentioned as part of the campaign is the Haitian activist in 
the Dominican Republic, Sonia Pierre.

Recently, the Central Electoral Board ruled in favour of the implementation of 
the Libro de Extranjeria that documents when a foreigner is born here. The new 
registration document has been well received by the US Consulate, but not by 
international organisations that demand that all those born in the Dominican 
Republic be granted Dominican citizenship.

In December 2005, the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that those born to parents 
without permanent residence or citizenship would not be Dominicans at birth.

Given the difficulties in stemming migration at the border, the Dominican 
Republic every year receives thousands of new Haitian migrants.


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