Geneva, (EFE) – The UN Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women regretted today the mistreatment that suffer in many areas Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, for which he asked this country to take measures to improve the situation of this group.
The committee denounced the deportation of numerous Haitian women who were pregnant or shortly after giving birth, as well as violence and discrimination against them or the separation of their children in cases where they were born in Dominican territory.
Given these practices, the United Nations committee requested that the Dominican Republic immediately suspend the deportation of these women and guarantee their protection against violence and discrimination.
It also requested the issuance of permanent residence permits to migrants whose children were born in Dominican territory.
The report denounces multiple forms of discrimination against women of Haitian origin, for example their risk of falling into sex trafficking networks.
On the other hand, the committee expresses its concern about the fact that in 2020 only 22 cases of illegal prostitution networks were prosecuted in the Dominican Republic, and about the high number of sexually exploited Dominican adolescents.
