Members of the National Coordination of Network Border Jeannot Succès (RFJS) have launched a campaign of identification, in favor of Haitians living in the border areas around the theme "Gen yon pyès ki di ki moun ou ye, ki nasyonalite w, se yon dwa mwen menm avè w nou genyen."

Establish a pressure force to bring the Haitian government to take urgent measures to provide identity documents to the citizens of border regions of North-East, West, Central and Southeast, is the objective of this campaign.

The National Coordination of Network Border Jeannot Succès (RFJS) recalled that the lack of access to identification documents, making vulnerable the Haitian citizens face the different cases of abuse and human rights violations committed continually to various border points.

Alexis Alphonse, the Secretary of the National Coordination of RFJS in the North East, criticized the behavior of Dominican migration authorities which are now required to Haitian workers who perform the daily back and forth to the border of Ouanaminthe/Dajabon, to have a license or a passport.

According to Manise Elie, the National Coordinator of RFJS, this campaign also aims to educate the island's authorities for the implementation of a transboundary-pass, for the Haitian and Dominican attending the border daily, as part of the trade.

For his part, George Joseph, Spokesman of RFJS on the border of South-East (Anse-à-Pitres/Pédernales), called on Haitian authorities to decentralize registration services of civil status office for the accessibility of everyone to these services. Lamenting the lack of civil status offices in the border town of South-East, maintaining a large part of the population in a situation of paperless "Imagine a population of 28,000 people, we have only one officer of civil status for the entire border town of Anse-à-Pitre."

Emphasize that under this identification campaign the RFJS also plans to meet with officials from the Haitian government including representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Haitians Living Abroad as well as with civil status officers and representatives of the National Archives of Haiti.

SL/ HaitiLibre