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02-19-2009, 02:50 PM
The Dominican Republic is found at the same level as Thailand, Brazil and Colombia, countries long considered the nations with the highest percentage of human trafficking. This was the result of three studies that were released yesterday by the Ministry of Women which referred to trafficking of women and gender killings. With respect to the latter, investigator Susie Pola reported that so far this year 34 women have been killed in this country, which represents an increase of gender killings in relation to other years in which the statistics show an average of 200 victims per year, or an average of 17 per month. According to one of the studies regarding the white slave trade in Central America and the Dominican nation, some 200,000 local citizens have emigrated over the past few years, and at least a third of them have been the victims of procuring and prostitution. The investigations found that tourism publicity that promotes the country as a "sex paradise" is used to the advantage of human traffickers to carry out their business.
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