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<text>
<title>
Americas Watch
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<article>
<hdr>
Human Rights Watch World Report 1992
Human Rights Watch Missions In 1991: Americas Watch
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<table>
January
Guatemala: to conduct exhumations in San Antonio Sinaché and
fact-finding in Santiago Atitlán (with Physicians for Human
Rights)
January-February
El Salvador: to conduct fact-finding for March report, The
Challenge of Reform
Mexico: to investigate violence along the United States-Mexico
border
February
Argentina: to gather facts pertaining to the issues of truth
and justice
Dominican Republic: to conduct follow-up investigations of the
use of forced labor on state-run sugar plantations (with
National Coalition for Haitian Refugees and Caribbean Rights)
Mexico: to meet with government officials, human rights
activists and victims, labor leaders and others in Mexico City,
and to investigate the December 1990 police killing of six
civilians in Angostura, Sinaloa
Panama: to investigate developments affecting the rule of law
since the Endara administration came into office following the
December 1990 U.S. invasion
Paraguay: to present "New Outbursts of Violence in Land
Disputes," and to meet with government officials
March
Puerto Rico: to investigate prison conditions (Human Rights
Watch Prison Project)
March-April
Nicaragua: to conduct fieldwork on political violence and the
condition of demobilized contra fighters
April
Brazil: to investigate violence against women (HRW's Women's
Rights Project)
Cuba: to investigate violations of freedom of expression and
general human rights issues
Haiti: to investigate the administration of justice and
participate in a Caribbean Rights conference
Suriname: to investigate human rights conditions in light of the
December 1990 coup and assess conditions in advance of the May
elections
May
Colombia: to present the Spanish-language version of The Drug
War in Colombia and to investigate general conditions
Peru: to conduct fact-finding on counterinsurgency policy and
related abuses.
May
Uruguay: to investigate general conditions and the case of the
identification of child who had been kidnapped from his
"disappeared" mother
May-June
Nicaragua: to prepare July report, Fitful Peace
July:
Argentina: to investigate police killings and torture
Chile: to present Human Rights and the "Politics of Agreements"
Dominican Republic: to investigate the mass forced deportation
of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians (with National Coalition for
Haitian Refugees and Caribbean Rights)
Ecuador: to investigate general conditions, especially the
issue violence in rural areas related to land conflicts
Guatemala: to present the Chunimá case before the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica
Nicaragua: to present Fitful Peace
Peru: to meet with government officials, journalists and human
rights activists
August
Brazil: to present the Portuguese version of Rural Violence in
Brazil, meet with government officials, and investigate police
violence in Sao Paulo
El Salvador: to examine the peace process and the effect of the
U.N. presence
Mexico: to investigate the murder of journalist Víctor Oropeza
in Chihuahua
Guatemala: to investigate conditions of displaced villagers in
northern Quiché organized as the Communities of Population in
Resistance
September
El Salvador: to observe the trial of military personnel in the
Jesuit killings
October
Colombia: to investigate general conditions
Honduras: to meet with government officials, human rights
activists and attorneys
Mexico: to participate in a conference on human rights
documentation by the newly formed National Democratic Lawyers
Association
November
Brazil: to investigate violence employed by the police in Rio
de Janeiro
Nicaragua: to investigate general conditions
November-December
Brazil: to investigate rural violence
December
Haiti: to investigate violations since the September coup d'etat
(with National Coalition for Haitian Refugees)
Peru: to participate in a hearing before the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica, on the Frantón
case
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</article>
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