Abstract
Guest Editor's Note/Nota de la Editora Invitada
Highlights
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island which we today call Hispaniola
On September 23, 2013, the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal decided to give the 2010 constitutional reform regarding the rights to Dominican nationality retroactive force back to 1929 (Sentence TC168/13)
The official Dominican presence highlighted the extent to which the Dominican authorities have come under international pressure after TC168/13 due to the issue of statelessness and the human rights situation for Dominican-Haitians living in the Dominican Republic
Summary
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island which we today call Hispaniola. On September 23, 2013, the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal decided to give the 2010 constitutional reform regarding the rights to Dominican nationality retroactive force back to 1929 (Sentence TC168/13). This highly criticised ruling, which violated several principles of legality, would affect the large minority of Dominicans of Haitian decent disproportionally as more than 200.000 people suddenly risked losing their citizenship as a result of it.
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