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<text>
<title>
Helsinki Watch
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Human Rights Watch World Report 1992
Human Rights Watch Missions In 1991: Helsinki Watch
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<body>
<table>
January
Northern Ireland: to research human rights violations by
both sides
January-February
Baltics: to meet with government officials and eyewitnesses in
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania while investigating the January
1991 violence in the Baltics
February
Romania: to do a follow-up investigation of the June 1990
events and take a further look into the problems of the Romanian
Gypsies
March
Yugoslavia: to investigate the demonstrations in
Belgrade in March and the situation of the Serbs in Croatia
April
March
Soviet Union: to investigate genera conditions in Moldavia
Albania: to investigate general conditions and meet with
Albanian authorities (Part of an International Helsinki
Federation delegation)
March-April
Bulgaria: to continue research on the situation of the Gypsies
April
United States: to visit three federal prisons in Pennsylvania
as part of an investigation of U.S. prison conditions. (Human
Rights Watch Prisons Project)
April-May
Romania: to continue the Gypsy project
May-June
Yugoslavia: to research freedom of the press in Serbia, Kosovo,
Vojvodina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Hercegovina
and Slovenia, and to investigate the deaths of seventeen people
after recent interethnic violence in Vukovar
May-July
Soviet Union: to attend a minority rights conference in
Leningrad; to interview Armenian officials, refugees from
Azerbaidzhan, Azerbaidzhani officials and refugees from
Armenia in Armenia and Azerbaidzhan; to make contacts in
Turkmenia; and to do follow up work in Tadzhikistan on Helsinki
Watch's report on Tadzhikistan
June
Soviet Union: to research conditions in Soviet pretrial prisons,
labor camps and other penal facilities by visiting twenty-one
facilities in all and interviewing current and former prisoners,
prison officials, defense attorneys, procurators and prison
rights activists
July
Soviet Union: to research the "punished peoples," those who had
been deported under Stalin
Romania: to complete the Gypsy report and investigate suspicious
beatings of journalists and writers
July-September
Yugoslavia: to investigate ethnic tensions and army abuses in
Croatia and Slovenia
August
Germany: to do preliminary research for a report on treatment of
the Gypsy population
August-September
Soviet Union: to interview Azerbaidzhani and Kurdish refugees in
Baku and to establish contacts with government officials and
human rights activists in Georgia
September
Soviet Union: to attend the CSCE Meeting in Moscow and run
independent seminars, on eight incidents of the unjustified use
of force by the Soviet government against civilians, and the
current plight of ethnic minorities deported under Stalin
October
Albania: to investigate general conditions
Germany: to research human rights conditions of Gypsies in
Germany
October-November
Romania: to investigate prison conditions
Romania/Greece: to do follow up work on the treatment of the
Turks in Western Thrace
November
Turkey: to investigate reports of torture of children in
detention
November-December
Soviet Union: to set up the Helsinki Watch office in Moscow,
and to observe the situation of the South Ossetians in North
Ossetia and Georgia
</table>
</body>
</article>
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