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Racial Profiling & Mass Deportations: Perspectives from the Dominican Republic & Haiti (Dec. 10, 2024)
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Time: 3:30 – 5 PM EST/4:30 – 6 PM AST
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On October 2, 2024, the Dominican Republic announced that it would drastically increase deportations to Haiti with a target of deporting 10,000 people each week. By the end of the campaign’s first month, Dominican authorities reported that over 60,000 people had been repatriated to Haiti.
Join Edwidge Danticat, Dominican and Haitian activists, and the Hemispheric Network for Haitian Migrants’ Rights on International Human Rights Day for a webinar discussing the human rights violations resulting from this deportation campaign and actions to address the ongoing harms.
Interpretation will be provided in the following languages: English, Kreyol, Spanish.
Speakers:
Edwidge Danticat
Roudy Joseph, Colectivo #HaitianosRD
Katia Bonté, Groupe d’Appui aux Rapatriés et Refugiés (GARR)
Noemi Mendez, Reconocido
Co-sponsored by: NYU’s Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies; NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics; NYU Law’s Center for Race, Inequality & the Law; Haitian Studies Association