DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: FY 2008 PEDOPHILIA

UNCLAS SANTO DOMINGO 000428 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR IO/RHS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: AORC PHUM SOCI DR SUBJECT: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: FY 2008 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION REF: STATE 27762 ¶1. The UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) does not grant any official status, accreditation, or recognition to any organization which promotes and condones or seeks the legalization of pedophilia or has subsidiaries or member organizations that do. Mission has reviewed the 32 NGOs affiliated with INSTRAW and has found no/no indication that any of the these UN-affiliated NGOs are pro-pedophilia. Mission has good personal knowledge of the vast majority of these organizations and researched previously unknown organizations through electronically-published literature and review of local news stories. Staff time devoted to complying with reftel request was 4 hours. POC is Political Officer Michael Garuckis. -------------- List of affiliated NGOs is as follows: -------------- Amigos Siempre Amigos, Inc ("Friends Forever" - works HIV/AIDS prevention in the gay community) Asociacion Dominicana de Mujeres Jovenes (Dominican Association of Young Women) Asociacion Dominicana de Planificacion Familiar (Dominican Association of Family Planning) Bloque de Organizaciones No Gubernameriales, Inc. (Association of Non-Governmental Organizations) Catholic Relief Services Centro Cultural Dominico-Haitiano (Center for Dominican-Haitian Culture) Centro Cultural Poveda (Cultural Center "Poveda" - provides teacher training) Centro de Estudios Sociales Padre Juan Montalvo, S.J. (Center for Social Studies "Father Juan Montalvo, S.J.") Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (Center of Investigation for Feminist Action) Centro de Planificacion y Accion Ecumenica (Center for Planning and Ecumenical Action) Centro de Solidaridad para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (Solidarity Center for Women's Development) Centro Dominicano de Asesoria e Investigaciones Legales (Dominican Center for Assessment and Legal Investigations) Centro Dominicano de Estudios de la Educacion (Dominican Center for Education Studies) Centro Social y Cultural de Desarrollo Dominico-Haitiano, Inc. (Center for Dominican-Haitian Social and Cultural Development) Ciudad Alternativa ("Alternative City" - assists with construction of self-help houses and neighborhood upgrading, legal assistance to urban poor) Colectiva Mujer y Salud (Women's and Health Collective) Comision de Trabajo Ecumenico Dominicano (Dominican Ecumenical Work Commission) Comite para la Defensa de los Derechos Battiales (Defense Committee for Local Rights) Coordinacion y Animacion Social Cultural (Social-Cultural Coordination and Activity) Escuela de Formacion Socioeconomica y Cultural (School for Socioeconomic and Cultural Training) Family Care International Fundacion de Capacitacion Sociocultural Dominico-Haitiana (Foundation for Dominican-Haitian Social-Cultural Training) Fundacion Melassa de Jesus Vargas ("Melissa Jesus Vargas Foundation" - a scholarship program run by the University of Puerto Rico (Mayaguez)) Germinando Ideas ("Sprouting Ideas" - working for increased participation of youth aged 15 to 30 in civil society) Instituto Dominicano de Apoyo de Juventud ("Dominican Institute of Youth Assistance" - working HIV/AIDS and other issues with Dominican youth) Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitiana (Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women) Movimiento Social Cultural de los Trabajadores Haitianos (Social-Cultural Movement of Haitian Workers) Mujeres en Desarrollo Dominicana (Dominican Women in Development) Organizacion para el Desarrollo de las Mujeres Haitianas y sus Familiares (Organization for the Development of Haitian Women and Their Families) Patronato de Ayuda a Casos de Mujeres Maltratadas ((Religious) Faculty for the Help of Abused Women) Servicio Jesuita de Refugiados (Jesuit Refugee Service) Tu Mujer ("Your Woman" - working trafficking in persons, domestic violence, and other issues with Dominican women) FANNIN