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10-26-2007, 02:50 PM
Gay McDougall, who is visiting the Dominican Republic to verify the existence or non-existence of racism in the country has told the press that she was surprised at yesterday's Senate resolution describing her visit here as part of an international conspiracy against the Dominican Republic.
She and her colleague, Senegalese Doudou Diene, explained that they were not UN officials, as had been reported in the press, and said that they were independent professionals chosen by the UN Committee on Human Rights to study the racial problem in the DR. McDougall is a former executive director of the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington, D.C. She was a judge in the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award that honored Sonia Pierre for her activism in favor of improving life for Haitians in the Dominican Republic. In an online press release from the RFK at the time, she stated her position: "'The level of violence against Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic is alarming', said Gay McDougall, RFK Human Rights Award Judge and UN independent expert on minority issues. 'At a time when even second and third generation ethnic Haitians are targets of brutal human rights abuses, Sonia Pierre has risen as the most profound leader in the nation's movement for minority rights.'"
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She and her colleague, Senegalese Doudou Diene, explained that they were not UN officials, as had been reported in the press, and said that they were independent professionals chosen by the UN Committee on Human Rights to study the racial problem in the DR. McDougall is a former executive director of the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington, D.C. She was a judge in the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award that honored Sonia Pierre for her activism in favor of improving life for Haitians in the Dominican Republic. In an online press release from the RFK at the time, she stated her position: "'The level of violence against Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic is alarming', said Gay McDougall, RFK Human Rights Award Judge and UN independent expert on minority issues. 'At a time when even second and third generation ethnic Haitians are targets of brutal human rights abuses, Sonia Pierre has risen as the most profound leader in the nation's movement for minority rights.'"
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)