Actions to Confront Violence Against Women

Institutional Actions to Confront Violence Against Women in the Dominican Republic:

• Ministry of Women programs to prevent and confront domestic violence and violence against women.
• Creation through Decree 423-98 of the National Commission for the Prevention and Fight Against Domestic Violence -CONAPLUVI, for its acronym in Spanish- and its strategic plan.
• Development of the National Model of Attention.
• Creation of special departments to attend to female victims of violence in:
  • Attorney General’s Office of the Dominican Republic.
    • Prosecutor of the National District has several specialized programs
    • Unit of Prosecution and Prevention of Gender-based Violence
    • Care Center for Survivors of Violence
    • Department of Childhood, Adolescence and the Family
    • Behavioral Intervention Center for Men
    • Ministry of Health (MISPAS, for its acronym in Spanish)

• Standards of health care for female victims of violence.
• Department of Attention to Battered Women.
• Unit of Attention and Prevention of Pregnancy in Adolescents in Public Hospitals.
• Department of Protection of Women in the National Police.
• Friendly Detachments of Women
• Departments and Attorneys specialized in dealing with domestic violence and violence against women, in the Office of the Prosecutor of the National District and in the interior.
• Department of Women and Minors in the Ministry of Foreign Relations (MIREX, for its acronym in Spanish).
• Implementation of the National Program for Attention and Prevention of Violence Against Women in All of the Country.
• Updating of the National Gender Equity Plan, with particular emphasis on the subject of violence against women.

Source: Ministry of Women