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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2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Dominican Republic 13 April 2016 \| Publisher: United States Department of State \| Document type: Annual Reports
No Health, No Help: Abuse as Drug Rehabilitation in Latin America & the Caribbean April 2016 \| Publisher: Open Society Foundations (OSF) \| Document type: Regional Reports
List of issues in relation to the fourth periodic report of the Dominican Republic 24 March 2016 \| Publisher: UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) \| Document type: Country Reports
The State as a Catalyst for Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women and Torture or other Ill-treatment in the Context of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Latin America and the Caribbean March 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Regional Reports
Dominican Republic court partially strikes down criminal libel laws 25 February 2016 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country News
Amnesty International Report 2015/16 - Dominican Republic 24 February 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Annual Reports
Dominican Republic's absurd laws shatter star boxer's promising career 4 February 2016 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News
World Report 2016 - Dominican Republic 27 January 2016 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Annual Reports
Situation of Human Rights in the Dominican Republic 31 December 2015 \| Publisher: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Dominican Republic takes women's rights back to 1884 3 December 2015 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country News

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