working groups with the IACHR and civil society, which contributed to the DR’s removal from Chapter V (countries with the lowest human rights compliance) in the annual reports published by the Commission between 2017 and 2019. However, Dominican civil society has observed that these interactions have not resulted in concrete responses to the various problems raised by Sentence 168-13 and the implementation of Law 16914. In 2020 the work of the roundtables had not resumed, nor had it resumed in 2021 to date. The final section offers a series of recommendations for the consideration of government actors, international and non-governmental organizations. 34 Research Brief: COVID-19 Impacts on Haitian Migrants and their Descendants on the Southern Border of the D.R.