In 2013, the Dominican Republic invited IJM, Dressember’s partner, to help tackle child sex trafficking through justice system strengthening. After almost 10 years of collaboration with the Dominican Republic, IJM’s work supporting the local justice system has yielded significant results worth celebrating!
According to IJM's 2022 endline study, during the decade of IJM's presence, the Dominican Republic experienced a staggering 78% decrease in the overall prevalence of commercial sexual exploitation of children. The number of children in the commercial sex trade decreased from 1 in 10 to 1 in 45. And where children were once trafficked in 95% of the cities and towns investigated, today only 25% of those locations show any signs of child trafficking – and even these cases are very infrequent.
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