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29/04/2023

Stop Deporting Haitians: Human Rights Experts’ Appeal to Countries in Americas

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Countries in the Americas should suspend forced returns of Haitians on the move and adopt measures to protect them instead, UN-appointed independent human rights experts said on Friday [].

A woman arrives at an IOM-supported reception centre in Haiti after being deported from Texas , USA, in 2021.
IOM Haiti | A woman arrives at an IOM-supported reception centre in Haiti after being deported from Texas , USA, in 2021.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sounded the alarm after 36,000 people of Haitian origin were deported during the first three months of the year, according to figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Some 90 per cent were deported from the Dominican Republic.

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