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Local October 16, 2025 | 8:19 am

Despite reforms, U.S. says Dominican Republic still fails to meet anti-trafficking standards

Santo Domingo.- The U.S. State Department recognized the Dominican Republic’s progress in combating human trafficking, upgrading the country to Tier 2 in its 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report. Despite the improvement, the report states that the Dominican Republic still “does not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating human tr... Read more

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