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Dominican-Haitian dialogue seeks improving relationship

SANTO DOMINGO.- The Dominican Advisory and Legal Investigation Council (CEDAIL), of the Catholic Church, and the Support Group for Refugees and Repatriated (GARR) held a "solidarity and hope" gathering to promote the dialogue and interchange between the organizations which fight for human rights in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

The CEDAIL said that in the activity, held in Belladere, Haiti, with the support pf the Belgian NGO VOLENS-Itinerans, participated 80 activists from base organizations who work on both sides of the border.

The organization stated that the dialogue identified the obstacles which prevent the access to Justice in the border, and proposals were elaborated to solve the problem.

"It is important to indicate that both justice systems came about through a series of reforms that have been conditioning their operation. However, despite the reforms we can state that in both nations corruption of the justice operators continues,? states the document?s summary, adding that it also showed ?great deficiencies in the police, the high costs of justice, impunity and a large number of preventive prisoners without being tried."