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Weekly Report - 13 November 2014 (WR-14-45)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-HAITI: A Gordian knot of legal troubles
The Dominican authorities and the Inter-American justice system are locked in a dispute over legal jurisdiction which has escalated to the point where it now looks intractable. At the centre of the dispute is the Dominican Republic’s treatment of Dominicans of Haitian descent, which both the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte-IDH) and its sister body the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) have censured in recent weeks and demanded redress from the Dominican government. This prompted the latter to announce its intention to leave the Corte-IDH, which the IACHR insisted was impermissible. Neither side shows any inclination to back down, issuing one statement after enough condemning each other.
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