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92.
The delegation acknowledged existing challenges such as violence against women
and teenage pregnancies. Regarding statelessness, few countries could show a migratory
regularization plan like that of the Dominican Republic, which had made a very significant
effort to implement it. In addition, Act No. 169-14 was a normative basis that responded to
all possible legal situations.
93.
The delegation recognized the country’s challenges and highlighted that the
interventions by States during the universal periodic review helped to understand how the
country was perceived through the comments and recommendations. The Government was
in permanent dialogue with members of organizations from the different communities in
order to be able to capture their concerns and demands in a constructive process of
collaboration, with a view to consolidating democracy and human dignity.
II. Conclusions and/or recommendations
94.
The following recommendations will be examined by the Dominican Republic,
which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-first session of
the Human Rights Council:
94.1
Consider ratifying pending human rights instruments, particularly
the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, and the Optional Protocols to the Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child (Chile);
94.2
Consider acceding to those international human rights instruments to
which the Dominican Republic is not yet a party, including the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of their Families, the International Labour Organization Indigenous
and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), and the 1954 Convention
relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, inter alia (Honduras);
94.3
Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (Benin);
94.4
Become a party to the International Convention on the Protection of
the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (Seychelles);
94.5
Consider acceding to the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
(Colombia);
94.6
Consider acceding to the International Convention on the Protection
of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
(Ecuador);
94.7
Accede to the International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and the
Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (Mexico);
94.8
Initiate the process for signing and ratifying the International
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and
Members of their Families (Paraguay);
94.9
Consider ratifying the International Convention on the Protection of
the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
(Philippines);
94.10
Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance (Montenegro);
94.11
Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance (Togo);
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