Dominican Republic

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• Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal 1
• Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada 118
• Center for Gender & Refugee Studies 1
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• Committee to Protect Journalists 23
• 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 33
• Human Rights Watch 12
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 8
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• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2
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• International Trade Union Confederation 8
• Minorities at Risk Project 2
• Minority Rights Group International 7
• National Legislative Bodies / National Authorities 19
• Open Society Foundations (OSF) 3
• Organization of American States (OAS) 1
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• Refugees International 4
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• United States Department of State 65
• Women's Refugee Commission 2

• Annual Reports 200
• Case Law 17
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• Country News 93
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• Query Responses 118
• Regional Reports 12
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• Sessional Reports 2
• Speeches/Statements 3
• States Parties Reports 19
• Thematic Reports 9

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 5
• Access to water 1
• Accession 1
• Administrative courts 1
• Administrative law 2
• Adoption 1
• Africans 1
• Age discrimination 2
• Aliens 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 31
• Armed forces / Military 1
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• Assemblies of God 10
• Asylum policy 4
• 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 29
• Child prostitution 19
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 54
• Children-at-risk 20
• Christian 9
• Citizenship / Nationality law 15
• Civil and political rights 6
• Conflict situation 1
• Constitutional law 2
• 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 16
• Criminal justice 18
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 1
• Democracy 3
• Denial of nationality 6
• Deportation / Forcible return 21
• Disappeared persons 20
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 56
• Domestic violence 15
• Drug trafficking 10
• Economic, social and cultural rights 28
• Effective protection 3
• Effective remedy 4
• Election law 1
• Elections 17
• Equality before the law 1
• Evangelical 9
• Expedited procedures 1
• Expulsion 13
• Extradition 3
• Extrajudicial executions 36
• Extreme poverty 3
• Forced labour 33
• Forced marriage 4
• Forced sterilization / Abortion 9
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 30
• Freedom of assembly and association 33
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 102
• Freedom of information 46
• Freedom of movement 24
• Freedom of religion 43
• Freedom of speech 38
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 28
• Gender mainstreaming 3
• Gender-based persecution 5
• Good governance 3
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 12
• Haitians 66
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Hindu 10
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 9
• Human Rights Council 6
• Human rights activists 9
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 69
• Human rights courts 5
• Human rights law 3
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 8
• Immigrants 3
• Immigration Detention 5
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• Immunity 2
• Impunity 13
• 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 10
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 17
• Medical screening 2
• Mennonite 1
• Mental health 1
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• Migrant rights 15
• Migrants 25
• Military courts 6
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• Minorities 16
• Minority rights 2
• Mormon 10
• Multiple nationality 3
• Muslim 10
• National security / Public order 2
• Naturalization 8
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Opposition 1
• Peace process 1
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• Pentecostal 10
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
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• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 13
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 5
• Persons with disabilities 10
• Piracy 1
• Police 42
• Political parties 4
• Political situation 1
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Prevention of discrimination 3
• Prison or detention conditions 16
• 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 23
• Regional instruments 1
• Registration 3
• Rejected asylum-seekers 2
• Rejection at border 1
• Religious discrimination 17
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Residence permits / Residency 7
• Returnees 2
• Right to a nationality 24
• Right to education 11
• 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 6
• Right to return 2
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rights of non-citizens 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 24
• Sale of children 1
• Security forces 27
• Security situation 2
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Seventh Day Adventist 10
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 50
• Sexual and reproductive rights 19
• Smuggling of persons 10
• Social group discrimination 14
• Social group persecution 1
• State of emergency 1
• State protection 14
• Statelessness 45
• Statelessness Determination Procedures 5
• Sunni 4
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 5
• Temporary admission 2
• Temporary protection 1
• Terrorism 6
• Threats / Intimidation 5
• Torture 8
• Trafficking in persons 64
• Travel documents 2
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 10
• Visas 3
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• Witchcraft 1
• Withdrawal of nationality 7
• Witnesses 4
• Women's rights 38
• Women-at-risk 20
• Work permits 1

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