During Pride Month, AJWS celebrates two members of grantee RevASA, a Dominican organization that upholds the rights of lesbian women, gay men, bisexual people and transgender people. Click below for their stories of coming out and leading the fight to win visibility and equality for their community. Gregory Jiménez When no one in Gregory …
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In recent years, they helped create constitutional protections for LGBT people, launched a film festival at a prestigious national venue, and inspired the country’s first openly gay candidate to run for political office. But progress wasn’t always so close at hand for RevASA, a Dominican LGBT rights organization supported by AJWS and its parent organization, …
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Food sovereignty—people’s right to define their own food and agricultural systems—can be a matter of life and death.
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AJWS’s Global Justice Fellows—14 rabbis and a cantor from communities around the U.S.—were in Washington, D.C., last week, pressuring American officials to fight for a just resolution to the statelessness crisis in the Dominican Republic. Sparked by a 2013 court ruling that stripped citizenship from hundreds of thousands of people, the crisis has created the …
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I recently accompanied AJWS’s Global Justice Fellows—14 rabbis and a cantor—on a trip to the Dominican Republic to learn from activists confronting widespread human rights abuses. This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting their experience. “We can’t do nothing—because people did nothing for us, and we know what happens when people …
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This story is part of a series of blog posts marking the third anniversary of the court decision that sparked a statelessness crisis in the Dominican Republic. Despite all the accounts of adversity since the 2013 Dominican court ruling, some Dominicans of Haitian descent have successfully applied for documents, restored their nationality and enjoyed the …
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After the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court’s infamous ruling retroactively stripped citizenship from hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent three years ago, a complex, highly-politicized crisis unfolded.
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Three years ago today, the Dominican Republic’s constitutional court stripped the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of people, leaving them without a country to call home.
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Women’s rights activists are enraged that a popular African rumba musician Koffi Olomide has spent recent weeks posting music videos to the web and playing gigs in his native Democratic Republic of Congo—despite the fact that earlier in the summer, a cell phone camera captured him allegedly assaulting one of his dancers.
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Before setting out to march in the Dominican Day Parade in New York City on Sunday, organizers of We Are All Dominican (WAAD)—a U.S.-based human rights organization supported by AJWS that fights to raise awareness about the controversial citizenship crisis unfolding in the Dominican Republic—issued a warning to their participants: Don’t lose your composure around …
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