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received. The Dominican Republic took the opportunity to remind that the process for
receiving requests for naturalization established in Act No. 169-14 was now finished.
850. In the Dominican Republic, all foreigners had their basic rights guaranteed;
foreigners authorized to reside legally in the country, whatever their migratory status, were
guaranteed all their rights in accordance with current legislation without the need for
additional guarantees.
851. As a sample of the ongoing efforts of the Government of the Dominican Republic to
provide migrants with documentation, the General Directorate of Migration had created a
protocol to guarantee the effective renewal of previously acquired documents through the
National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners, in accordance with resolution no. 01-17
of the National Migration Council. This protocol was executed in four phases during one
year, with advertising being one of them. For optimum development of the process and
better awareness for the beneficiary population, civil society and international organizations
participated, supporting the dissemination of the advertising campaign and the
accompaniment of the beneficiaries in the process. This allowed for reaching, through
multiple channels, migrants favoured by migratory regularization and giving everyone the
opportunity to preserve their migratory status through renewal or change of category of the
acquired migratory status. All this demonstrated concrete actions on the part of the
Dominican Republic to preserve the human rights of migrants, showing, once the renewal
phase was exhausted, a result of more than 209,000 foreigners with legal migratory status
in the Dominican Republic, always respecting the human rights of migrants.
2.
Views expressed by Member and observer States of the Council on the outcome of the
review
852. During the adoption of the outcome of the review of the Dominican Republic, 12
delegations made statements.**
853. Brazil recognized the efforts made by the Dominican Republic through the adoption
of legislative and public policies measures in order to ensure human rights consecrated in
the Constitution of 2010. Brazil commended the Dominican Republic for launching the
National Human Rights Plan and for the number of universal periodic review
recommendations accepted by the country. Brazil reiterated its concerns about cases of
statelessness, and for the necessity to adopt additional measures to prevent HIV/AIDS in
the country.
854. Chile noted that it had praised the Dominican Republic during the Working Group
on the Universal Periodic Review, for its first National Human Rights Plan, for having
created a monitoring system for the implementation of recommendations, and for having
ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. Chile stressed the commitment of the
Dominican Republic to strengthen the national human rights institution according to the
Paris Principles.
855. China commended the Dominican Republic for its active participation during its
third universal periodic review. It welcomed the achievements of the Dominican Republic
in promoting and protecting human rights. It thanked the Dominican Republic for having
** The statements of the delegations that were unable to deliver them owing to time constraints which
were made available are posted on the extranet of the Human Rights Council, at
https://extranet.ohchr.org/sites/hrc/HRCSessions/RegularSessions/41Session/Pages/default.aspx
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