While most adolescents interviewed for this project said they were not ready to become parents, one variable remains constant: their aspirations for their infants, unborn children and themselves.
In the Dominican Republic, doctors often clash with education and religion over the use of contraceptives, contributing to the country's high number of pregnant teenagers.
In the mountainous regions of the Dominican Republic teen pregnancy is everywhere and mothers’ partners are commonly older.
As a lingering economic crisis stymies the Caribbean, some see a solution in closer interstate ties.
The world's roads are still a place of carnage, with hair-raising instances of risky practices, unenforced laws and shoddy data. This quick survey of country facts also shows that progress is real.
The Pulitzer Center is proud to announce the publication of its first iBook “In Search of Home," an exploration of statelessness in Kenya, Burma, and the Dominican Republic.
There are 12 to 15 million stateless people worldwide, making statelessness the most overlooked and under-reported human rights crisis.
Discriminatory laws and policies in the Dominican Republic have stripped Dominicans of Haitian descent of citizenship and deprived them of social services, education and employment.
Up to a million Haitians, and descendants of Haitians, are being affected by a new law about citizenship in the Dominican Republic. Many could face deportation, despite being born in the country.
Many medical studies on people in developing countries are controversial under US regulations. Is the pharmaceutical industry profiting at the expense of research ethics?
A change to the Dominican Republic's constitution has left many residents of Haitian descent lacking citizenship and in a state of legal limbo.
Dominican human rights activists lobby for government attention to unrecognized Haitian hardships.
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