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- From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: Economic and social rights in Nic
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.221308.24874@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /* Written 2:12 pm Sep 3, 1992 by codehuca in cdp:carnet.alerts */
- /* ---------- "Economic and social rights in Nic" ---------- */
- URGENT COMMUNICATION
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- COUNTRY - NICARAGUA
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- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS IN NICARAGUA
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- CODEHUCA (la Comision para la defensa de los derechos humanos en
- Centro-America) has received this information from CENIDH (the
- Centro Nicaraguense de derechos humanos) concerning demands being
- made by various groups that work with pensioners and other sectors
- whose social and economic rights are being violated in Nicaragua -
- the ORD (Organizacion de revolucionarios discapacitados) and the
- AJUNIC (the Movimiento de madres de caidos en la defensa y la
- Asociacion de Jubilados de Nicaragua).
-
- The pensioners are making the following demands of the government:
-
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- 1- that there be no discrimination in the provision of social and
- economic services to victims of Nicaragua's ten year war with
- the U.S.-contras. Handicapped persons, war widows and war
- orphans have the same rights to social and economic services
- as ex-Contras;
-
- 2- that the Ministry of Health (INSSBI) stop taking arbitrary
- decisions to suspend or decrease pensions for war victims;
-
- 3- that the pensions ($20, $10 and $5 per month) should be at a
- minimum indexed at least according to the rates of inflation;
-
- 4- that milk subsidies for babies under the age of 6 months, and
- rice, sugar and bean subsidies, in general, should be
- reinstated, in sufficient quantity and quality, to cover the
- basic nutritional needs of the Nicaragua people, a large
- percentage of whom are not earning enough money to cover even
- their minimal costs of living and survival;
-
- 5- that the government give an accounting to the Nicaraguan
- population, particularly the war victims, of the 36,000,000
- cordobas (approx - $7,000,000) that were deducted from workers
- salaries to go towards pensions, that have not been handed
- over.
-
- CODEHUCA is following closely the situation in Nicaragua. The
- situation of economic and social rights is worse now than at the
- end of the 1980s. This situation must be seen in the context of the
- demands made by first world governments, particularly the U.S., and
- first world institutions (the World Bank and the International
- Monetary Fund) to implement structural adjustment development plans
- that violate directly and indirectly economic and social rights of
- the Nicaraguan people.
-
- We call on the international community to support the work and
- demands of the people in Nicaragua for full respect for their
- social, cultural and economic rights.
-
- Please direct messages to:
-
- 1- Violeta Barrios, President of the Republic, Managua,
- Nicaragua, fax-627911;
-
- 2- Dr Simeon Rizo, Ministro Director Instituto Nicaraguense de
- Seguridad Social y Bienestar, Fax-40418;
-
- 3- Antonio Lacayo, Ministro de la Presidencia, Managua,
- Nicaragua, fax- 624351
-
- 4- Your governments representative before the World Bank and the
- International Monetary Fund.
-
-
- September 1, 1992, San Jose, Costa Rica
-
-