Dominican Republic

Abduction 1
Access to procedures 4
Access to water 1
Africans 1
Age discrimination 2
Aliens 2
Arbitrary arrest and detention 30
Armed forces / Military 1
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
Assemblies of God 10
Asylum policy 3
Asylum-seekers 8
Baptist 10
Border conflict 1
Buddhist 9
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
Capacity building of state institutions 1
Catholic 11
Ceasefire 2
Child labour 26
Child prostitution 17
Child soldiers 3
Children's rights 50
Children-at-risk 19
Christian 9
Citizenship / Nationality law 12
Civil and political rights 5
Conflict situation 1
Constitutional law 3
Contemporary forms of slavery 1
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 1
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 3
Corruption 14
Criminal justice 18
Death in custody 1
Death penalty 1
Democracy 3
Denial of nationality 6
Deportation / Forcible return 20
Disappeared persons 20
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 52
Domestic violence 14
Drug trafficking 10
Economic, social and cultural rights 27
Effective protection 2
Effective remedy 4
Election law 1
Elections 16
Equality before the law 1
Evangelical 9
Expedited procedures 1
Expulsion 13
Extradition 3
Extrajudicial executions 35
Extreme poverty 3
Forced labour 31
Forced marriage 2
Forced sterilization / Abortion 7
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 30
Freedom of assembly and association 32
Freedom of conscience 1
Freedom of expression 98
Freedom of information 45
Freedom of movement 23
Freedom of religion 41
Freedom of speech 38
Gang related violence 2
Gender discrimination 27
Gender mainstreaming 3
Gender-based persecution 5
Good governance 3
Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
HIV and AIDS 11
Haitians 63
Harmful traditional practices 1
Hindu 10
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 8
Human Rights Council 6
Human rights activists 9
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 68
Human rights courts 4
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 3
Humanitarian assistance 2
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 7
Immigrants 3
Immigration Detention 4
Immigration law 5
Immunity 2
Impunity 12
Independence of judiciary 3
Indigenous persons 1
Integration 1
Internal armed conflict 3
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 7
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 5
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 4
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 7
International protection 3
Involuntary repatriation 2
Jehovah's Witness 10
Jew 9
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 15
Medical screening 2
Mennonite 1
Mental health 1
Mentally disadvantaged persons 2
Migrant rights 13
Migrants 21
Military courts 6
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 6
Minorities 14
Minority rights 2
Mormon 10
Multiple nationality 3
Muslim 10
National security / Public order 2
Naturalization 5
Non-state agents of persecution 1
Opposition 1
Peace process 1
Peacekeeping 2
Pentecostal 10
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 2
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 11
Persons of concern to UNHCR 5
Persons with disabilities 8
Piracy 1
Police 40
Political parties 3
Political situation 1
Pre-trial detention 5
Prevention of discrimination 3
Prison or detention conditions 15
Proof of nationality 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 11
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 1
Protestant 10
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 5
Public health 8
Racial / Ethnic persecution 4
Reconciliation 1
Refoulement 1
Refugee / Asylum law 3
Refugee seamen 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
Refugees 21
Regional instruments 1
Registration 3
Rejected asylum-seekers 2
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 17
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
Residence permits / Residency 7
Returnees 2
Right to a nationality 23
Right to education 10
Right to employment 9
Right to family life 5
Right to health 6
Right to justice 1
Right to leave 1
Right to liberty and security 3
Right to life 5
Right to registration at birth 5
Right to return 2
Right to self-determination 2
Rights of non-citizens 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 23
SGBV 47
Sale of children 1
Security forces 25
Security situation 2
Serious non-political crime 1
Seventh Day Adventist 10
Sexual and reproductive rights 15
Smuggling of persons 9
Social group discrimination 14
Social group persecution 1
State of emergency 1
State protection 13
Statelessness 38
Sunni 4
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
Temporary admission 2
Temporary protection 1
Terrorism 6
Threats / Intimidation 4
Torture 7
Trafficking in persons 61
Travel documents 2
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
Visas 3
Voluntary repatriation 2
Witchcraft 1
Withdrawal of nationality 5
Witnesses 4
Women's rights 35
Women-at-risk 20

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Amnesty International Report 2016/17 - Dominican Republic 22 February 2017 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Annual Reports
Dominican Republic: News presenter and producer gunned down in mid-broadcast 15 February 2017 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Two radio journalists shot and killed during live broadcast in the Dominican Republic 15 February 2017 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News
¿Qué esperamos del futuro?: Detención migratoria y alternativas a la detención en las Américas 2017 \| Publisher: International Detention Coalition \| Document type: Regional Reports
Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016 - Central America and the Caibbean 22 December 2016 \| Publisher: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) \| Document type: Country Profiles
Dominican Republic: President Medina must stop a regressive reform for women's rights 15 December 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
Report to the Spanish Government on the visit to Spain carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 17 to 19 February 2016 15 December 2016 \| Publisher: Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture \| Document type: Country Reports
Response of the Spanish Government to the report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on its visit to Spain from 17 to 19 February 2016 15 December 2016 \| Publisher: Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture \| Document type: Country Reports
Haiti: Stateless People Trapped in Poverty 29 November 2016 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of the Dominican Republic 21 October 2016 \| Publisher: UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) \| Document type: Concluding Observations

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