Dominican Republic

• Amnesty International 79
• Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal 1
• Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 118
• Center for Gender & Refugee Studies 1
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 20
• Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2
• Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights 2
• Dominican Republic: Constitutional Court 3
• France: Commission des Recours des Réfugiés (CRR) 1
• Freedom House 31
• Human Rights Watch 12
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 8
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACrtHR) 7
• Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees 1
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2
• International Crisis Group (ICG) 2
• International Trade Union Confederation 8
• Minorities at Risk Project 2
• Minority Rights Group International 6
• National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities 14
• Open Society Foundations (OSF) 3
• Organization of American States (OAS) 1
• Refugee Studies Centre 1
• Refugees International 4
• Reporters Without Borders 25
• UN Commission on Human Rights 2
• UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) 10
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 2
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 7
• UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW) 1
• UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 7
• UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) 1
• UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 1
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 17
• UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) 9
• UN Human Rights Council 13
• UN News Service 11
• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 2
• UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2
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• UN Security Council 6
• United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1
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• United States Congressional Research Service 1
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• United States Department of Labor 15
• United States Department of State 61
• Women's Refugee Commission 2

• Annual Reports 189
• Case Law 17
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Commentaries 1
• Comments on Concluding Observations 1
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• Concluding Observations 13
• Country News 82
• Country Profiles 3
• Country Reports 45
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• National Legislation 8
• Query Responses 118
• Regional Reports 11
• Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations 3
• Sessional Reports 2
• Speeches/Statements 3
• States Parties Reports 19
• Thematic Reports 7

• 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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