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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH MISSIONS IN 1992

Africa Watch

February/Somalia: To research the conduct of the civil war in Mogadishu and the extent of the humanitarian disaster, and to deliver a strong message of condemnation to the contending parties.

March/Ethiopia: To investigate progress toward establishing the rule of law.

March/Eritrea: To follow up on the recommendations in the report Evil Days with the Provisional Government of Eritrea.

April/Mozambique: To undertake research on current human rights abuses prior to the completion of a major report.

May/Angola: To research the problem of land mines.

May/Zaire: To conduct research on the transition to democracy.

June/Ethiopia: To follow up concerns arising from the newsletter "Waiting for Justice" with the Transitional Government.

July/Somalia: To research human rights abuses in the north.

August/South Africa: To visit prisons and police lock-ups.

November/Egypt: To attend a human rights conference on Sudan and research abuses in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.

Americas Watch

February-March/Dominican Republic: To look into human rights abuses against Haitian sugar cane cutters.

March/Peru: To meet with government officials, human rights monitors and witnesses to human rights violations.

May/Peru: To evaluate post-coup conditions and influence the debate on democracy and human rights.

May/Paraguay: To investigate cases of impunity.

May-June/El Salvador: To research the activities of the United Nations Observers Mission to El Salvador (onusal) and general human rights concerns.

June/Colombia: To monitor the conduct of Army counterinsurgency operations and rural human rights abuses.

June/Costa Rica: To appear before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

June-July/Peru: To research political violence against women and general human rights conditions.

June-July/Haiti: To research repression of civil society in post-coup Haiti.

July/Venezuela: To research human rights violations and political violence in the wake of the February coup attempt.

July/Ecuador: To gather information on rural violence.

July/Colombia: To conduct general fact-finding and promote Political Murder and Reform in Colombia.

August-September/Brazil: To investigate police abuses.

September/Costa Rica: To give a speech before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

October/Colombia: To conduct fact-finding on the overall human rights situation and conditions of displaced persons.

October/Argentina: To attend a conference and meet with officials, nongovernmental organizations, and human rights monitors to discuss outstanding cases.

October/Bolivia: To monitor the trial of General Luis Garcia Meza.

October/Brazil: To investigate the massacre at the Casa de Detencao prison.

November/Mexico: To meet with officials and human rights organizations, conduct fact-finding and to promote a new Americas Watch book on Mexico.

November/Colombia: To research general human rights conditions.

Asia Watch

January/India: To investigate human rights abuses associated with the Narmada Dam Project and rural violence and police killings in Andhra Pradesh.

January/Philippines: To investigate abuses by paramilitary organizations in Mindanao.

March/Japan: To meet with Japanese Diet members, Foreign Ministry officials, representatives of nongovernmental organizations and businessmen to discuss human rights and Japan's foreign aid policies.

April-May/Cambodia & Thailand: To assess the human rights situation in Cambodia in light of the implementation of the Paris peace accords.

June-July/Thailand: To investigate killings of demonstrators and disappearances following violence in Bangkok on May 17-20 (with Physicians for Human Rights).

September/Indonesia: To raise human rights issues at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit and distribute copies of the Human Rights Watch report Indivisible Human Rights.

September/Thailand: To investigate trafficking in women and hiv-related issues, problems of Burmese refugees in Thailand and other human rights issues on the Thai-Burmese border.

October/India: To investigate human rights conditions in Kashmir and Punjab (with Physicians for Human Rights).

October/Pakistan: To conduct follow-up investigation after a report on police abuse of women in detention.

Helsinki Watch

January/Yugoslavia: To meet with heads of state and to release a report in the form of a letter to President Milosevic on human rights abuses committed by the Serbian government and the Yugoslav army.

January/Turkey: To meet with heads of state and release a report on the torture of children.

March/Czechoslovakia: To meet with government officials to address human rights problems in Czechoslovakia.

March-April/Yugoslavia : To discuss Helsinki Watch's reports on abuses by both sides with Croatian and Serbian government officials and to investigate detention camps in Serbia and Croatia.

April/Spain: To release the Spanish-language version of Prison Conditions in Spain.

April-May/Nagorno Karabakh: To investigate armed conflict.

June/Tajikistan: To investigate general conditions and internal armed conflict.

April/Northern Ireland: To investigate the treatment of children in detention.

April-June/Germany: To investigate the treatment of foreigners and to prepare reports on the decommunization process in Germany and on violent attacks against foreigners.

April-May/Turkey: To research the massacre of Kurds during Kurdish New Year.

May-June/Yugoslavia: To collect testimony from victims of the conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

May/Bulgaria: To investigate the lustration law and the decommunization process.

June/United Kingdom: To release Prison Conditions in the United Kingdom.

July/Romania: To investigate police lock-ups and follow up on the situation in Romanian orphanages.

August/Moldova: To investigate armed conflict and alleged violations of human rights.

August/Turkey: To investigate police lock-ups and prison conditions, and update previous information about human rights conditions in the country.

September-November/Yugoslavia: To interview refugees and other civilians about reported abuses, and to investigate accusations of harsh mistreatment of women.

October/Armenia: To investigate reports of air-raid attacks against civilians by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno Karabakh.

October/Georgia: To investigate human rights abuses.

October-November/Romania: To investigate the treatment of ethnic Hungarians.

October-November/Bulgaria: To investigate the treatment of the Gypsy and Turkish minorities, as well as the decommunization process.

October-November/Czechoslovakia: To meet with activists and government officials about human rights conditions and to assess the general human rights situation.

October-November/Albania: To meet with activists and government officials about human rights conditions and to assess the general human rights situation.

October-November/Russia: To investigate women's rights issues (with the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project).

November-December/Uzbekistan: To investigate restrictions in Kazakhstan of free speech and assembly, and to look into the protection of minority rights.

Middle East Watch

December 1991/Iraqi Kurdistan: To examine mass graves in Northern Iraq (with Physicians for Human Rights).

January-February/Egypt: To investigate prison conditions and torture, arrests and detention.

February/Iraqi Kurdistan: To conduct fact-finding on the Iraqi government's human abuses during the Anfal campaign against the Kurds (with CBS news show, "60 Minutes").

April/Kuwait: To investigate the mistreatment of Asian domestic employees.

April-September/Iraqi Kurdistan: To conduct field research into the Anfal campaign.

May/Algeria: To investigate human rights situation since the declaration of the State of Emergency.

May-June/Iraqi Kurdistan: To conduct exhumation of mass graves (with Physicians for Human Rights).

May/Iraqi Kurdistan: To secure the retrieval of captured Iraqi documents.

July/Syria & Jordan: To investigate political detention in Syria and interview Iraqi refugees.

July/Egypt: To release Behind Closed Doors at a press conference in Cairo.

July/Tunisia: To observe the mass trial of Islamists (with International Human Rights Law Group).

Sept-November/Israel: To investigate undercover killings in the Occupied Territories.

November/Iraqi Kurdistan: To secure the retrieval of captured Iraqi documents and to investigate Iraqi government's continued human rights abuses against the Kurds.

Prison Project

January-February/Egypt: To visit prisons and interview former prisoners.

April/Spain: To release the Spanish-language version of Prison Conditions in Spain report.

June/U.K.: To release the Prison Conditions in the U.K. report.

August/South Africa: To visit prisons and police lockups.

October/Brazil: To investigate the October 2 massacre of prisoners in Sao Paulo.

Women's Rights Project

April/Kuwait: To investigate the mistreatment of Asian domestic employees.

June/Peru: To gather information on the use of rape as a form of torture and punishment and other political violence against women.

August/Brazil: To release the Portuguese version of Criminal Injustice: Violence Against Women in Brazil.

September/Thailand: To investigate trafficking in women and hiv-related issues.

October/Pakistan: To conduct follow-up investigation after the report on police abuse of women in custody.

November/Russia: To investigate women's rights issues.

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