The annual report to the US Congress on worldwide trafficking in persons submitted by the US Secretary of State states that the DR is primarily a source country for trafficked women and, less frequently, for minor girls. According to the Center for Integral Orientation and Investigation (COIN), a non governmental organization, women typically between the ages of 18 and 25, and girls as young as age 15, are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation and domestic servitude to Europe (Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, and Belgium), the Lesser Antilles (Curacao, Saint Martin, Aruba, and Antigua), and, in some cases, to Argentina and Israel. For more information on the report, see http://www.usinfo.state.gov/topical/global/traffic/
