Press release 222/2013
(17 October 2013
Statement on the ruling of the Dominican Republic Constitutinal Court on Nationality
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)
The Caribbean Community is deeply concerned by the ruling of 23 September 2013, of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on nationality which modifies retroactively legislation which bestowed citizenship on persons born in the Dominican Republic during the period 1929-2010.
As a result of the ruling, which considers migrants entering the Dominican Republic since 1929 and their children born in the country as “in transit” and requires them to obtain nationality, a large number of persons who are part of the very fabric of Dominican society would be stripped of Dominican citizenship. It is estimated that some 210,000 Dominican-born people of Haitian descent who were legally considered Dominican and contributed, as citizens of the Dominican Republic, to the growth and development of their society, economy and politics, would be affected, rendering them stateless in violation of international human rights obligations.
The Caribbean Community notes with regret that the decision goes against pronouncements of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (ICHR) which has repeatedly called on the Dominican Republic to adopt measures to guarantee the right to nationality in the country and to adapt its immigration laws and practices in accordance with the provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights. The Caribbean Community is particularly concerned about the humanitarian implications of the judgment. The implications of tens of thousands of persons being plunged into a constitutional, legal and administrative vacuum by the ruling are a source of deep distress to those affected and one of significant disquiet for our Community. The Caribbean Community calls on the Dominican Republic to adopt measures to protect the human rights and interests of those made vulnerable by this ruling and its grievous effects.
CONTACT: piu@caricom.org; caricompublicinfo@gmail.com
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Upcoming events" Disaster Risk Reduction Calendar for 1015/013
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AFRICA
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* Cape Town, South
Africa: International day for disaster reduction 2013
Date: 11 Oct 2013
Organizer: City of Cape Town, South Africa - gov
Location: South Africa (Cape Town)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Vulnerable Populations
* International
Day for Disaster Reduction 2013 Celebration - �Living
with Disability and Disasters�
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR ROAS); World Health
Organization - Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO - EMRO)
Location: Egypt (Cairo)
Themes: Community-based DRR; Disaster Risk Management;
Social Impacts & Resilience; Vulnerable Populations
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
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* Uganda: National
conference on disaster risk reduction (DRR)
Date: 17 Oct 2013
Organizer: Office of the Prime Minister, Department of
Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Management
(OPM), Uganda - gov; Uganda Red Cross Society; United Nations
Development Programme - Uganda (UNDP
Uganda); United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional
Office for Africa (UNISDR AF)
Location: Uganda
Themes: Community-based DRR; Early Warning; Indigenous
Knowledge; Media; Vulnerable Populations
* Transforming
rural livelihoods in Africa: How can land and water management contribute to
enhanced food security and address climate change adaptation and mitigation?
Date: 20-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: Africa Soil Science Society (ASSS); Soil
Science Society of East Africa (SSSEA)
Location: Kenya (Nakuru)
Themes: Capacity Development; Climate Change; Food
Security & Agriculture; Water
* Third conference
on climate change and development in Africa (CCDA-III)
Date: 21-23 Oct 2013
Organizer: African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC)
Location: Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
Themes: Climate Change; Economics of DRR; Governance
* International
Day for Disaster Reduction 2013 Celebration - �Living
with Disability and Disasters�
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR ROAS); World Health
Organization - Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO - EMRO)
Location: Egypt (Cairo)
Themes: Community-based DRR; Disaster Risk Management;
Social Impacts & Resilience; Vulnerable Populations
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AMERICAS
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* Guyana:
in-school art and essay competition - for students of schools for children with
disabilities
Date: 11 Oct - 22 Nov 2013
Organizer: Civil Defense Commission (CDC), Guyana - gov
Location: Guyana
Themes: Education & School Safety; Vulnerable
Populations
* II Festival
Cultural por una Guatemala Resiliente
Date: 13 Oct 2013
Organizer: Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducci�n de Desastres (CONRED),
Guatemala - gov
Location: Guatemala (Ciudad Guatemala)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Vulnerable Populations
* Foro
discapacidades y desastres: Una conversaci�n
no tan obvia
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP (CESAP); United Nations
Development Programme - Venezuela (UNDP Venezuela)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (Caracas)
Themes: Vulnerable Populations
* El riesgo nos
toca: 1er encuentro sobre
responsabilidad de los gobiernos locales en
la gesti�n de
riesgos y reducci�n de
desastres
Date: 30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP, Redes Locales de Gesti�n de Riesgos de M�rida (CESAP)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (M�rida)
Themes: Urban Risk & Planning
* Fourth annual
roundtable for Canada's Platform for disaster risk reduction
Date: 05 Nov 2013
Organizer: Public Safety Canada, Canada's Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction (PS), Canada -
gov
Location: Canada (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Themes: Governance
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
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* Managing fire on
populated forest landscapes
Date: 20-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest
Service , Canada - gov; University of Toronto; University of Washington;
University of Western Ontario (UWO); Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU)
Location: Canada (Vancouver)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management; Risk
Identification & Assessment; Space Technology
Hazards: Wild Fire
* NOAA's 38th
climate diagnostics and prediction workshop
Date: 21-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), United States of America - gov
Location: United States of America (College Park,
Maryland)
Themes: Climate Change; Early Warning; Environment; Risk
Identification & Assessment; Water
* Foro
discapacidades y desastres: Una conversaci�n
no tan obvia
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP (CESAP); United Nations
Development Programme - Venezuela (UNDP Venezuela)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (Caracas)
Themes: Vulnerable Populations
* 1st
international workshop on landslides in sensitive clays (IWLSC)
Date: 28-30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Laval University (UL); Ministry of
Transportation, Quebec; Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)
Location: Canada (Quebec)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning;
Environment; GIS & Mapping; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Land Slide
* El riesgo nos
toca: 1er encuentro sobre
responsabilidad de los gobiernos locales en
la gesti�n de
riesgos y reducci�n de
desastres
Date: 30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Grupo Social CESAP, Redes Locales de Gesti�n de Riesgos de M�rida (CESAP)
Location: Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of (M�rida)
Themes: Urban Risk & Planning
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ASIA
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* The disaster
#thisability hour
Date: 11 Oct 2013
Organizer: Oxfam - Great Britain
Location: Philippines
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
* 5th CR+I
seminar: Lessons learned from the events of March 11
Date: 28-29 Oct 2013
Organizer: International Association for the Study of
Insurance Economics (Geneva Association)
Location: Japan (Sendai)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management;
Insurance & Risk Transfer; Public-private Partnerships; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: Cyclone; Earthquake; Tsunami
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
-----------------------------------
* The 4th
international conference on sustainable future for human security (SUSTAIN
2013)
Date: 18-21 Oct 2013
Organizer: Indonesian Student Association Kyoto (ISA);
Kyoto University; Sustain Society
Location: Japan (kyoto)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning; Water
Hazards: Land Slide
* Hazard and risk
management in Asia-Pacific region: Earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption and
landslide in subduction zones
Date: 19-20 Oct 2013
Organizer: Global Earthquake, Tsunami and Volcanic
Eruption Risk Management (G-EVER); International Union of Geological Sciences
(IUGS); National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST); Science Council of Japan (SCJ)
Location: Japan (Sendai)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; GIS & Mapping;
Information Management; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Earthquake; Land Slide; Tsunami; Volcano
* 1945 makran
tsunami ESCAP project meeting
Date: 20-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
Location: Oman (Muscat)
Themes: Community-based DRR; Education & School
Safety
Hazards: Tsunami
* First national
conference on ecological change
Date: 21-22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Institute of Resource Governance and Social
Change (IRGSC)
Location: Indonesia (Kupang)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Social Impacts &
Resilience; Water
Hazards: Flood
* IDRC Singapore
2013: Mega cities and urban risks
Date: 21-22 Oct 2013
Organizer: Global Risk Forum (GRF Davos); Institute of
Catastrophe Risk Management, Nanyang Technological University (ICRM)
Location: Singapore
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Urban Risk &
Planning; Water
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic; NBC - Nuclear,
Biological, Chemical
* 11th
international symposium on mitigation of geo-disasters in Asia
Date: 22-27 Oct 2013
Organizer: Himalayan Landslide Society (HiLS)
Location: Nepal (Kathmandu and Pokhara City)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Land Slide
* Young scientists� conference on integrated
research on disaster risk, future earth, and sustainability
Date: 22-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: System for Analysis, Research and Training
(START)
Location: Taiwan (China) (Taipei)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Environment
* United Nations
international conference on space-based technologies for disaster risk
identification, assessment and monitoring
Date: 23-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: Ministry of Civil Affairs, China - gov; United
Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, UN-SPIDER (UNOOSA)
Location: China (Beijing)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Economics of DRR;
Governance; Risk Identification & Assessment; Space Technology
Hazards: Drought; Flood
* 5th CR+I
seminar: Lessons learned from the events of March 11
Date: 28-29 Oct 2013
Organizer: International Association for the Study of
Insurance Economics (Geneva Association)
Location: Japan (Sendai)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management;
Insurance & Risk Transfer; Public-private Partnerships; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: Cyclone; Earthquake; Tsunami
* 9th APRU
research symposium on multi-hazards around the Pacific Rim
Date: 28-29 Oct 2013
Organizer: Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)
Location: Taiwan (China) (Taipei)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning;
Governance; Recovery; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Earthquake; Storm Surge; Volcano
* 2nd
international conference on enviromental hazards
Date: 29-30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Kharazmi University
Location: Iran, Islamic Rep of (Tehran)
Themes: Environment; GIS & Mapping; Urban Risk &
Planning
Hazards: Cold Wave; Cyclone; Drought; Earthquake; Flood;
Heat Wave; Land Slide; Tsunami; Volcano
* Asia flood
conference 2013
Date: 29-31 Oct 2013
Organizer: Fireworks Trade Media Group
Location: Thailand (Bangkok)
Themes: Early Warning; Health & Health Facilities;
Insurance & Risk Transfer; Risk Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Flood
* International
day for disaster reduction 2013: Symposium on disabilities and disaster risk
reduction
Date: 29 Oct 2013
Organizer: Japan Disability Forum (JDF); Nippon
Foundation, the; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Hyogo
Liaison Office (UNISDR Hyogo)
Location: Japan (Rikuzentakata City)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Governance; Vulnerable
Populations
Hazards: Earthquake
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EUROPE
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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE DRR CALENDAR
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* Disaster risk
reduction: A concern worldwide public talk
Date: 16 Oct 2013
Organizer: Concern Worldwide
Location: Ireland (Dublin)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: All hazards approach (for educational material
only)
* Critical
infrastructure protection and resilience Europe
Date: 12-13 Feb 2014
Organizer: Torch Marketing
Location: United Kingdom (London)
Themes: Critical Infrastructure; Risk Identification
& Assessment; Social Impacts & Resilience
UPCOMING EVENTS - NEXT 2 WEEKS (16 to 30 Oct 2013)
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* 1st
international conference '(Dis)memory of disaster'
Date: 18-19 Oct 2013
Organizer: Universidade Cat�lica
Portuguesa, Centro de Estudos de Comunica��o
e Cultura (CECC) (UCP); Universidade da
Madeira, Centro de Investiga��o
em Estudos Regionais e Locais (CIERL)
(UMa)
Location: Portugal (Funchal, Madeira Island)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Social Impacts &
Resilience
* Basketball for
International Day for Disaster Reduction
Date: 20 Oct 2013
Organizer: Geneva Environment Network (GEN); United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Location: Switzerland (Geneva)
Themes: Capacity Development; Civil Society/NGOs;
Disaster Risk Management; Education & School Safety; Social Impacts &
Resilience; Vulnerable Populations
* 7th IWA
specialist conference on efficient use and management of water
Date: 22-25 Oct 2013
Organizer: International Water Association (IWA);
Scientific and Technical Association for Water and the Environment (ASTEE)
Location: France (Paris)
Themes: Climate Change; Food Security & Agriculture;
Governance; Water
Hazards: Drought
* Introduction to
hydromorphology and fluvial geomorphology
Date: 22 Oct 2013
Organizer: JBA Consulting
Location: United Kingdom
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Environment; Risk
Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Flood
* Wildfire 2013
Date: 22-23 Oct 2013
Organizer: Rural Development Initiatives - United Kingdom
(RDI)
Location: United Kingdom
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Risk Identification
& Assessment
Hazards: Wild Fire
* Climate from the
Nordic-Baltic perspective: Science, policy and economy
Date: 23-24 Oct 2013
Organizer: Institute of Communication, Tallinn University;
Ministry of the Environment, Estonia - government; Nordic Cooperation, Nordic
Council of Ministers ; Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Location: Estonia (Tallinn)
Themes: Climate Change; Economics of DRR; Environment;
Food Security & Agriculture; Governance
* Call for papers
on disaster preparedness at the world conference on humanitarian studies
Date: 24-27 Oct 2013
Organizer: Kadir Has University
Location: Turkey (Istanbul)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Economics of DRR;
Vulnerable Populations
* OCHA panels at
international humanitarian studies conference
Date: 24-27 Oct 2013
Organizer: United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs - Headquarters (OCHA)
Location: Turkey (Istanbul)
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning;
Economics of DRR; Information Management; Insurance & Risk Transfer; Risk
Identification & Assessment
* UK national
dialogue on HFA2
Date: 24 Oct 2013
Organizer: Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet
Office (CCS), United Kingdom - gov
Location: United Kingdom (London)
Themes: Civil Society/NGOs; Disaster Risk Management;
Governance; Public-private Partnerships
* Next steps for
UK climate change policy: Delivering the national adaptation programme
Date: 29 Oct 2013
Organizer: Westminster Forum Projects (WFP)
Location: United Kingdom (London)
Themes: Climate Change; Critical Infrastructure;
Environment; Food Security & Agriculture; Governance; Health & Health
Facilities
* Flood risk
management: Managing extreme weather
Date: 30 Oct 2013
Organizer: Public Service Events (PS)
Location: United Kingdom (The Queens, Leeds)
Themes: Climate Change; Critical Infrastructure; Disaster
Risk Management; Environment; Food Security & Agriculture; Governance;
Recovery; Water
Hazards: Flood
* Global congress
on integrated coastal management: Lessons learned to address new challenges
Date: 30 Oct - 03 Nov 2013
Organizer: Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal
Seas Center (EMECS), Japan - gov; Mediterranean Coastal Foundation (MEDCOAST)
Location: Turkey (Marmaris)
Themes: Climate Change; Disaster Risk Management;
Economics of DRR; Environment; GIS & Mapping; Governance; Information
Management; Structural Safety; Urban Risk & Planning; Water
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