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March 17, 2017 by Angela Cave

Three Stories of Citizenship Struggle from the Dominican Republic

AJWS’s Global Justice Fellows—14 rabbis and a cantor from communities around the U.S.—were in Washington, D.C., last week, pressuring American officials to fight for a just resolution to the statelessness crisis in the Dominican Republic. Sparked by a 2013 court ruling that stripped citizenship from hundreds of thousands of people, the crisis has created the …

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March 15, 2017 by Angela Cave

AJWS’s Global Justice Fellows Witness Discrimination and a Statelessness Crisis

I recently accompanied AJWS’s Global Justice Fellows—14 rabbis and a cantor—on a trip to the Dominican Republic to learn from activists confronting widespread human rights abuses. This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting their experience. “We can’t do nothing—because people did nothing for us, and we know what happens when people …

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