Gender-based Violence Impunity among Haitian Women Survivors in the Dominican Republic

By: Altagracia E. Balcacer Molina, et al.

  Gender-based violence (GBV) impunity violates human rights, harms public health, and destabilizes homes and communities. GBV impunity often threatens diverse survivors’ basic security, including food, safe shelter, livelihood, and freedom from further violence.1 Impunity perpetuates GBV and denies survivors their rights not only to justice but to vital protection and recovery support services and prevention programs. It entrenches widespread lack of government transparency and accountability to uphold survivors’ legal and human rights. It further undermines broader development objectives of social inclusion, governance, and democracy. The Dominican Republic (DR) GBV Impunity case study is one of eight country case studies included in the GBV Impunity Regional Study under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Latin America and the Caribbean Learning and Rapid Response (LACLEARN) Task Order. Each case study investigates country-specific responses to the main research question:   

Chicago: NORC at the University of Chicagom 2024. 52p.