Countries: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: CONST-SCALE-1

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Countries: Angola, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vanuatu
Variables: ATC-SCALE-1

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Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: ATC-DATA-6

"Gender equality is mentioned in the Dominican Republic Constitution (Article 39) and is supported by other laws and rules. Additionally, the 2030 National Development Strategy and the 2015- 2020 Foreign Policy Strategic Plan prioritize gender equality and the provision of equal opportunities and rights for all citizens. Moreover, the main national security documents include provisions to protect and advance gender equality" (1). "In 2000, the government created the Ministry of the Woman as a way to implement the commitments established in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action.4 The Ministry of the Woman is responsible for preparing the Plan of Egalitarianism and Gender Equality and monitoring its progress. The latest National...more

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"In relation to the division of marital assets or cohabitation assets, the Dominican Republic is a 'community property' jurisdiction (that is, each spouse or concubine (long-term unmarried partner) is entitled to an equal percentage or 50% of the community accumulated by the spouses during the marriage)...The current position of the Dominican Republic Supreme Court is that marriage community begins on the day the marriage commences (sections 1399 and 1401, Civil Code). Therefore, community property should be divided equally between the former spouses and any operation made in excess of the rights of the other party will be reduced to equal rights" (13).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"The law provides for the same rights to women, regardless of marital status, over the ownership, use, decision-making power, and use as collateral over land and non-land assets (Constitution, Art 51,). The default marital property regime is partial community property and both spouses administer jointly held property under the law (Civil Code, Arts 1400-1421). In 1998, the Dominican Republic adopted mandatory joint titling for both married couples and those in consensual unions" (8). "Married and unmarried women have the same rights as men to open a bank account at a formal institution. They similarly have equal rights as men to obtain credit" (8).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"According to a 2019 UNICEF-supported government survey, 12 percent of girls were married by age 15 and 36 percent by age 18... More than one-half of women in the country’s poorest quintile were married by age 17" (19).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Despite government efforts, violence against women, including rape, was pervasive" (18).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: LRW-LAW-1

"The law criminalizes rape of men or women" (17). "The law defines statutory rape as sexual relations with anyone younger than age 18" (19).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: AFE-LAW-1

"The constitution stipulates free, compulsory, and universal public education through age 18" (19).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: UVAW-PRACTICE-1

"The Attorney General’s Office oversees the specialized Violence Prevention and Attention Unit, which had 19 offices in the country’s 32 provinces. The Attorney General’s Office instructed its officers not to settle cases of violence against women and to continue judicial processes even when victims withdrew charges. District attorneys provided assistance and protection to victims of violence by referring them to appropriate institutions for legal, medical, and psychological counseling" (17). "The ministry operated shelters and provided counseling services, although NGOs argued these efforts were inadequate" (17-18).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1

"In March, Amnesty International released a report detailing incidents of police raping and abusing sex workers. Nearly one-half of the victims were transgender women. They testified that police raped them at gunpoint and threatened to arrest or kill them if they did not comply with the police’s sexual demands. The report suggested that colonels and other senior police officers participated in these acts" (2-3).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: CONST-LAW-1

"The constitution creates a right of equality and nondiscrimination, regardless of sex" (25).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: DV-LAW-2

"The law provides for sentences of two to five years’ incarceration and a fine of three to five times the monthly minimum wage for persons convicted of abuse of a minor" (19).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: DV-LAW-1

"The law criminalizes rape of men or women, including spousal rape, domestic violence" (17). "The law contains provisions concerning child abuse, including physical and emotional mistreatment, sexual exploitation, and child labor" (19).

Countries: Dominican Republic
Variables: MARR-LAW-1, AOM-LAW-1

"The legal minimum age for marriage with parental consent is 16 for boys and 15 for girls" (19).