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OEA/Ser.L/V/II.104
Doc. 49 rev. 1
7 october 1999
Original: Spanish
REPORT ON THE
SITUATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
CHAPTER I BACKGROUND
A. Introduction
B. Methodology of the Report
C. On-site visit
D. Acknowledgments
E. Executive
Summary
CHAPTER II POLITICAL AND JURIDICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A. Political
structure of the Dominican Republic
B. Individual
guarantees set forth in the Constitution
a. Guarantees of equality
b. Guarantees of liberty
c. Guarantees of security
d. Guarantees of property
e. Social guarantees
C. Mechanisms
for protecting individual rights
D. Recent
legislative advances in the Dominican Republic
a. Code of the Minor
b. Law on Family Violence
E. International
instruments for the protection of human rights signed and ratified by the Dominican
Republic
a. Inter-American system
b. Universal system
F. The
treatment accorded international treaties under Dominican law
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER III THE RIGHT TO JUDICIAL RECOURSE AND THE
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A. Background
B. Main
problems of the Dominican judicial system
a. Efficiency
b. Procedures before the
Dominican courts
C. Reforms undertaken by the
Government
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER IV THE RIGHT TO LIFE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A. Legal provisions
B. Extrajudicial executions
a. Executions
committed during police activities
b. Executions committed in
the prisons
C. Forced disappearances
D. Impunity
for the acts committed by security agents
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER V THE RIGHT TO HUMANE TREATMENT IN THE DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
A. Legal provisions
B. Torture and inhumane
treatment
a. Torture and inhumane
treatment during detention
b. Torture and
inhumane treatment in the prisons
C. Impunity for the
acts committed by security agents
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER VI
THE RIGHT TO PERSONAL LIBERTY
A. Legal provisions
B. Arbitrary detentions
a. Massive
arrests by the police and other police operations
b. Detentions
during demonstrations and protests
c. Detentions
of family members as a means of coercion
C. Desacato
D. Preventive detention
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER VII RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION
A. Legal provisions
B. Freedom of expression
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER VIII PRISON CONDITIONS AND THE SITUATION OF PRISONERS
A. Background
B. Control of the prisons
C. Overpopulation of the
prisons
D. Judicial
assistance and the processing of benefits for prisoners
E. Failure to
separate prisoners by categories
F. Disciplinary regime in
the prisons
G. Health conditions and food
H. Visits by family members
I. Rehabilitation,
opportunities for work and recreation in the prisons
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER IX SITUATION OF HAITIAN MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR
FAMILIES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A. Introduction
a. Background
b. On-site visit by the IACHR
in 1991
B. Massive
expulsions of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans
C. Working and
living conditions in the bateyes
a. Working conditions
b. Living conditions
c. The situation of
Haitian women in the bateyes
D. Status of permanent
illegality
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER X THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A. The
legal framework for the protection of women
a. Domestic provisions
b. International provisions
B. Violence against women
a. Domestic violence
b. Violence
associated with prostitution and the trafficking of women
C. Discrimination
against women in politics
D. Labor
situation of women in the free-trade zones
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER XI SITUATION OF MINORS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A. Legal
framework for the protection of minors
a. Domestic provisions
b. International provisions
B. Socioeconomic situation
of minors
C. Education
D. Child labor
E. Child prostitution
F. Violence against minors
G. Situation of
minors deprived of their liberty
Conclusions and Recommendations
CHAPTER XII CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ANNEXES
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