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Bulletin, December 2011

Third binational meeting of civil society from Haiti and the Dominican Republic; challenges in the implementation of the migration law; the UN convention on statelessness; OBMICA publications on violence against Haitian women on the border and trafficking of Haitian and Dominican women; and a film on a banana batey in Montecristi. This bulletin closes the year 2011.

Cover of Bulletin, December 2011

Third binational meeting of civil society from Haiti and the Dominican Republic; challenges in the implementation of the migration law; the UN convention on statelessness; OBMICA publications on violence against Haitian women on the Dominican-Haitian border and trafficking of Haitian and Dominican women; and a film on a banana batey in Montecristi.

This bulletin closes the year 2011, reporting on several milestones from the last quarter related to OBMICA's work and the migration context in which we operate.

- Third binational meeting of Dominican and Haitian civil society actors, Barahona.

- New challenges in applying the migration law. Opinion article by Eddy Tejeda.

- Taking stock fifty years after the UN Convention to combat statelessness.

- Two OBMICA publications: studies on violence against Haitian migrant women on the Dominican-Haitian border and on trafficking of Haitian and Dominican women.

- New audiovisual resource available: an English-language film on the reality of batey communities near Montecristi.

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