Without citizenship, stateless people have no legal protection and no right to vote, and they often lack access to education, employment, health care, registration of birth, marriage or death, and property rights. Stateless people may also encounter travel restrictions, social exclusion, and heightened vulnerability to sexual and physical violence, exploitation, trafficking in persons, forcible displacement, and other abuses.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration
Human beings of Haitian descent, migrants and those born in the Dominican Republic, are denied human rights and dignity by the government of the Dominican Republic.
Stateless, they are citizens of no country.
near Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
