Dominican Republic

4 results:

• 🎓 Studies

  External Evaluation International Justice Mission Dominican Republic Program, 2013-2022

  This is an independent and summative evaluation, conducted after 9 years of IJM's work in the Dominican Republic. It aims to identify to what extent the IJM DR program has been able to strengthen the Dominican Public Justice System (PJS) in response to Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents (CSEC), and to what extent this response of the Dominican state contributed to a reduction in the prevalence of CSEC and TIP. The report notes that IJM positioned itself as a leading organization against CSEC and TIP in the Dominican Republic, achieving a strengthening of PJS institutions and greater cooperation between them, which allowed for higher quality investigations and prosecutions, more appropriate sentencing, and more sensitive treatment of victims. IJM also played a fundamental role in mobilizing civil society actors and other organizations, such as the United Nations, through joint advocacy actions to combat CSEC and TIP, ultimately contributing to greater political and social awareness of the issue.

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  Study of the Dominican public justice system in response to sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, 2010–2022

  This study examines the response of the public justice system (PJS) of the Dominican Republic in response to commercial sexual exploitation of children and sex trafficking from 2010-2022. It is the first study of its kind in the DR to use a robust methodology and provide concrete data about the performance of the PJS in response to the crime, key stakeholder confidence in the PJS response, and people’s reliance on the PJS.

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  Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Dominican Republic

  This study examines the prevalence of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in 20 cities in the Dominican Republic through an undercover survey that used qualitative and quantitative methods. This report contrasts 2022 prevalence levels with those obtained in a baseline study conducted by IJM in 2014. This study found a statistically significant 78% reduction in the prevalence of CSEC over the eight years between the two studies. The prevalence of CSEC went from 10.0% in 2014 to 2.2% in 2022.

• 🎓 Studies

  Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Dominican Republic

  A study measuring the prevalence of children in commercial sexual exploitation in the Dominican Republic