Americas Watch

January/Nicaragua: To research the problem of violence against former contras and former Sandinista soldiers.

January/Honduras: To conduct research on clandestine detainees.

February-March/Colombia: To conduct research on violations of laws of war by Mobile Brigades and by guerrillas.

May/Bolivia: To research a report on García Meza trial.

February/Costa Rica, Inter-American Court on Human Rights: To argue at a hearing on Advisory Opinion OC-13 (regarding powers of the Inter-American Commission).

February/Peru: To conduct research for a report on one year after Fujimori's "self-coup."

April/Peru: To conduct interviews on disappearance of students from La Cantuta University and revelations about a military death squad.

April/United States, Southwestern states: To research problem of violations by Border Patrol against intending immigrants.

May/Guatemala: To establish presence during attempted coup.

May-June/Venezuela: To conduct final research for first comprehensive report.

May-June/Brazil: To conduct research on violence against streetchildren in four major urban areas.

June/Argentina: To interview senior Peruvian military chief in exile about the military death squad and La Cantuta case.

July/Brazil: To research problem of forced labor.

June/Nicaragua: To attend General Assembly of the Organization of American States, and hold press conference.

June/Haiti: To research U.S. program of in-country processing of

applicants for asylum.

June-July/El Salvador: To conduct follow-up on Truth Commission report.

July/Costa Rica, Inter-American Court: To try the case on the merits against Peru for El Frontón prison massacre.

July/Costa Rica, Inter-American Court: To argue on preliminary objections, Caballero v. Colombia.

July/Peru: To research La Cantuta-Cieneguilla case, talk to press, government officials.

August-September/Guatemala: To follow up on July mission.

September/Brazil: To talk with government and press, and research massacre in Rio de Janeiro slum.

September/Guatemala: To conduct further research on new situation after fall of Serrano and appointment of new President.

October/Mexico and Guatemala: To conduct research on repatriation of Guatemalan refugees.

October/Nicaragua: To conduct further research on mechanisms to protect rights of contras who had returned to private life.

October/Honduras: To research human rights situation on the eve of elections.

October/El Salvador: To update human rights cases.

November/Paraguay: To talk with press, government and local monitors about attacks on press.

November/Brazil: (with Women's Rights Project) To conduct follow up investigation on violence against women and investigate forced prostitution of Brazilian girls in the Amazon region.

November/Argentina: To talk with government about press attacks, compensation of victims.

Arms Project

March/India, Pakistan: To investigate transfers of weapons to abusive forces in both India and Pakistan.

May/Argentina, Brazil, Chile: To investigate commercial transfers of weapons and licensing requirements of Southern Cone countries to human rights abusers elsewhere in the world.

June/Rwanda, Uganda, Belgium: To investigate where both sides in the abusive Rwandan civil war obtain weapons.

June/Mozambique: To investigate landmines abuse in Mozambique.

July-August/Georgia: To investigate violations of the laws of war and abuses of weapons in the Abkhazia civil war.

October-November/Israel-Lebanon: To investigate violations of the laws of war and abuses of weapons in the fighting in July between Israeli forces and Hizbollah in southern Lebanon.