Sonia Pierre
In 2005, Pierre went to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of two ethnic Haitian children who did not receive Dominican birth certificates. The name of the case was Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic. The court told the Dominican government to give birth certificates to the children.  However, later, the Dominican Supreme Court later said the Haitian workers were 'in transit,' so their children could not be citizens. "