Chapter 3 Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination of Dominicans of Haitian Descent | 143 birth; vulnerability; or any other condition of the children or adolescents; their parents, representatives or guardians; or their family members. 348. In regard to labor issues, the Labour Code provides in principle VII that "any discrimination, exclusion or preference based on sex, age, race, color, national extraction, social origin, political opinion, trade union membership or religious belief is prohibited, unless otherwise provided by law for protection to the worker. Any distinction, exclusion or preference based on the inherent requirements of a particular job are not included in this prohibition. " 349. In turn, with regard to education, the General Education Law No. 66-97, article 4 recognizes the right to education as a permanent and inalienable human right, which must be guaranteed without any type of discrimination, such as distinctions by nationality, race, sex, creed, economic and social position or of any other nature. 350. However, the Inter-American Commission observes that the Dominican Republic does not have a General Antidiscrimination Law. C. Main concerns and standards on the forms of discrimination affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent as a result of Judgment TC/0168/13 351. According to information provided by civil society, in the Dominican mindset “blacks are Haitians” and “Haitians are illegal.” 327 Consequently, when speaking about persons of African descent or blacks, Dominicans do not classify themselves as such but rather according to different skin-color categories, which range from light Indian, dark Indian, dark, mulatto, etc. The information collected by the IACHR indicates that there is a general lack of awareness about the African roots of Dominican identity. Thus, the practices of the civil registers, circulars, resolutions, laws, and judgments whose main effect has been to deny Dominican nationality to persons of African descent in order to preserve “Dominican identity” were denounced and documented. 352. By ordering the administrative transfer of all birth certificates of persons whose parents may have been “in transit” to the book of foreigners, judgment TC/0168/13 has a disproportionate effect on a clearly identifiable population group, Dominicans of Haitian descent. This is obviously because the Haitian population constitutes the largest group of immigrants in the Dominican Republic. In response to questions about how these “irregular” certificates were identified, various organizations told the Commission that Civil Registry officials had said that they identified the persons “by surnames that sounded Haitian” or by their “Haitian appearance or accent” when said persons went to the Civil Registry to request copies of their documents. 327 Information presented by civil society in meeting with IACHR in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2 December 2013. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights | IACHR