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From: hrcoord@igc.apc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Guat: Refugees & Displaced Persons
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:44:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701015:000:948
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 22 12:44:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: n

/* Written 10:41 am  Jan 22, 1993 by cwands@igc.apc.org in
igc:reg.guatemala */

NATIONAL COORDINATING OFFICE ON REFUGEES AND DISPLACED OF
GUATEMALA (NCOORD)


January 22, 1993

To all who responded to the letters from CIEDEG and our office re:
Jan 21/ Permanent Commissions in Huehuetenango-CEAR conflict.
According to the GRICAR:

THIS ISSUE IS NOW RESOLVED AND NO ACTION NEEDS TO BE TAKEN ON
THIS SPECIFIC CASE

We will send an update within 24-48 hours to explain the
resolution

Please remain vigilant as to the progress of the Caravan and the
refugee return.

Thank you for all work done on this case.

_________________________________________________________________
National Coordinating Office On Refugees and Displaced of
Guatemala (NCOORD) 59 E. Van Buren St., Suite 1400 Chicago, IL.,
60605, U.S.A.
												 Fax:
												 (312)
												 939-3272
email: PEACENET; cwands
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:37 PST
Subject: Brazil: Conviction for Fonteles Mur
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701055:000:615
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 26 18:37:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Brazil: Conviction for Fonteles Murder

From riomariausa Tue Jan 26 18:06:39 1993

We have just received word from the national office of the
Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil that James Vita Lopez, accused
of serving as the intermediary in the assassination of Paulo
Fonteles in 1987, was convicted on Saturday, January 23, and
sentenced to 21 years in prison.  Although Joaquim Fonseca, the
man believed to have ordered the assassination, is still free,
organizations dedicated to human rights and agrarian reform all
over Brazil received the news as a victory.

Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
From: andrewb@lazy.demon.co.uk (Andrew Brown)
From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Looking for Text of US State Dept Report on Human Rights in 119 Countries
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:46:16
Organization: MicroMuse
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: chezmoto.ai.mit.edu

The US State Dept recently issued its annual report on Human Rights
in 119 countries around the world.  Does anyone know if the text of
that report is available online on the Internet anywhere, in WAIS,
Gopher, or FTP'able form?

Barry Kort
Consulting Scientist
Educational Technology Research
BBN Lab
Cambridge, MA

bkort@bbn.com  -or-  barry@michael.ai.mit.edu
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:20 PST
Subject: Israel says family members/lawyer
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701040:000:915
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 26 10:20:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Israel says family members/lawyer

/* Written 12:20 am  Jan 26, 1993 by awaldie@web.apc.org in igc:mideast.levant */
[China Radio International-26Jan93-0000UTC]   Israel will allow
family members and lawyers to visit the Palestinian deportees
stranded in south Lebanon.  [The] Attorney General announced Monday
that the visits will help deportees determine whether to appeal
their cases.  The stranded Palestinians have already rejected the
appeal offer.  They argue that Israel must, instead, abide by the
UN resolution which orders their return to the Occupied
Territories.

Israel expelled more than 400 Palestinians to a no-man's land in
south Lebanon last month.

Palestinian negotiators vow to boycott the Arab-Israeli peace talks
until Israel allows the deportees to return to their home.

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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:26 PST
Subject: Re: AI UA018/93 HAITI Ill-treatment
Nf-ID: #R:cdp:1476701052:cdp:1476701053:000:415
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 26 18:26:00 1993


/* Written  6:15 pm  Jan 26, 1993 by gn:rmitchellai in igc:ai.uan */
Please note:
 
There is no diplomatic representative in the UK.
 
-----------------------------------------------------
 
If you have any any queries about this Urgent Action or about
the UA scheme in general, please contact:
 
Ray Mitchell
Amnesty International British Section
99 - 119 Rosebery Avenue
London
EC1R 4RE
 
email: gn:rmitchellai
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 24 Jan 93 13:52 PST
Subject: Appeal from Bangladesh buddhists
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701029:000:2005
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 24 13:52:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Appeal from Bangladesh buddhists

/* Written  3:01 pm  Jan 22, 1993 by bpf@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.seasia */
AN APPEAL TO HELP AND REHABILITATE THE BUDDHISTS
AFFECTED BY COMMUNAL DISTURBANCES.


As a consequence of destructions of historic Babri Mosque in
Ayodhya, India, by the Hindu fundamentalists, communal
disturbances flared up all over this subcontinent, resulting in
colossal loss of human lives and properties.

On the 11th and 12th December 1992, a group of miscreants
numbering 400/500 attacked the innocent Buddhist Monks and
villagers at Matain under Senbagh Police Station in Noakhali
District. They caused heavy damage to the only Buddhist temple,
looted away the properties and broke into pieces statues of Lord
Buddha. The miscreants injured the villagers, looted away the
house-hold properties including cash, ornaments, paddy,
furniture, cattle, and set on fire the dwelling houses, kitchen,
and cowsheds of the villagers, and rendered them completely
shelterless without having any food and clothings in this winter
season. About 200 people of 30 houses have been passing their
days in great miseries and the condition of the Children are more
serious for want of proper food and medicine.

Just after the occurrence, the "Young Men's Buddhist Association"
"(YMBA), Comilla, Bangladesh with their limited resources rushed
to the affected village and tried to succor the distress of the
people by distributing food, clothes, medicine, cash, etc.

The extent of damaged will be about Tk. 50,000,000 (fifty lac).
So far, no substantial help has been received by them from the
government or other donor agencies.

Therefore, this appeal is made to all for immediate help to the
affected villagers.

May all beings be happy,
Ven. Shilabhadra Bhikku
Secretary General

For more information- contact:
 YMBA
Baraigaon Kanaka Chaitya Vihar
P.O. Bhora Jagatpur
Laksam, Comilla
Bangladesh

Pubali Bank Ltd.
Daulatgonj Branch
A/C. No. 5698



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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:22 PST
Subject: Salvadoran Army Reduced
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701041:000:2194
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 26 10:22:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Salvadoran Army Reduced

/* Written  8:57 pm  Jan 25, 1993 by nyt@nyxfer.UUCP in igc:reg.elsalvador */

Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit

From el diario/La Prensa

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


Salvadoran Army Reduced

The Salvadoran Armed Forces Press Committee (Coprefa) 
announced that over 1,400 soldiers would be demobilized this week
in accordance with the 1992 peace agreement. The soldiers belong 
to three counter-insurgency battalions established in 1983. On 
January 19, 580 men from the Suchitlan battalion of Military 
Headquarters Number One, located in Chalatenango, were 
demobilized. On January 18 the Oromontique battalion of the Sixth
Infantry Brigade, with 350 members, based in the department of 
Usulutan, was demobilized. On January 20, 500 soldiers of the 
Libertadores battalion of the Second Infantry Brigade, located in
Santa Clara, were demobilized. In fulfillment of the peace 
agreement, since August of 1992 to date the Armed Forces have 
dissolved 23 anti-terrorist infantry battalions. Among the 
demobilized units are four of the five elite infantry battalions,
the last of which, Arce, will be dissolved on February 6. General
Mauricio Vargas, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the number of
demobilized soldiers to date was over 32,000.

Minister of Defense General Rene Emilio Ponce announced last
week that the plan to reduce the armed forces by one half, from 
63,000 to 31,500, had been advanced so that it could be completed
by January of 1994. (edlp 01/20/93 from Notimex)

[NOTE: The Defense Minister is himself on the list of those
accused of human rights abuses, but is among those officers
to be purged from the armed forces as part of the peace accord.
Instead, he will be permitted to remain in his post until
Cristiani's term expires in May 1994. -- NY Transfer]




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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:23 PST
Subject: Guatemala News 1/22 ed-lp
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701043:000:2030
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 26 10:23:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Guatemala News 1/22 ed-lp

/* Written  8:55 pm  Jan 25, 1993 by nyt@nyxfer.UUCP in igc:reg.guatemala */

Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit

From el diario/La Prensa

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


Guatemalan President Proposes Ceasefire

Guatemalan President Jorge Serrano asked the UN on January 
19 to observe the demobilization of the Guatemalan National 
Revolutionary Union (UNRG), if that group accepts his peace 
proposal. "This is the greatest opening ever shown," he said in a
speech before the UN General Assembly. "It reflects the 
government's fulfillment of the Guatemalan people's hopes for 
peace." Serrano proposed that the rebels be confined to certain 
areas in the country, whose limits would be determined by the 
government during the demobilization. There was not immediate 
comment from the UNRG headquarters located in Mexico City. 

"We are asking for help from the international community in 
this conflict, the oldest in Latin America," said Serrano. On 
January 14 Serrano asked the rebels to sign a peace accord within
90 days. He said his government was willing to sign a human 
rights agreement immediately, and would cooperate with the 
repatriation of some 45,000 Guatemalan refugees. Representatives 
of human rights organizations said some 2,200 refugees would be 
returning to Guatemala from Mexico on January 20. 

In his speech of January 19 Serrano did not offer any 
concessions to the UNRG, nor did he outline the conditions for 
the ceasefire, but said his government was willing to put into 
effect a truce even if the rebels had not signed a peace accord 
within the proposed 90 days. (edlp 01/20/93 from AP)


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From: hrcoord@igc.apc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Cuba Follow-up
Date: 20 Jan 93 20:19:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701002:000:1735
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 20 12:19:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Cuba Follow-up

/* Written  5:31 pm  Jan 20, 1993 by geonet@gn.apc.org in
igc:omct.sostortur */

Case CUB 171292.1 Follow-up of Case CUB 171292 The International
Secretariat of OMCT/SOS-Torture has received fresh information
about the situation of Mr. Elizardo Sanchez SANTACRUZ, on whose
behalf we solicited your intervention in our appeal CUB 171292
dated 17 December 1992.  Brief reminder of the situation:  In our
earlier appeal we informed you that at 16h00 on 10 December 1992,
International Human Rights Day, in Miramar, Havana, a group of
individuals had violently attacked Mr. Elizardo Sanchez SANTACRUZ.
Following the incident, agents of the Security Forces had
reportedly detained him and taken him to a medical assistance
centre from where he was transferred to the premises of the
Technical Investigation Department.  In this same appeal we also
informed you that eyewitnesses had allegedly testified that they
had seen him leaving the assistance centre with his face
disfigured and one eye seriously injured.  Recent information:
According to the most recent information received from the
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), a member
of our network, and various other organisations, Mr. Elizardo
Sanchez SANTACRUZ was released sometime at the end of December
1992 although the exact date of his release is not specified.
Remarks:  The International Secretariat is greatly encouraged by
the news of the release of Mr. Elizardo Sanchez SANTACRUZ and
should like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the
network and all other organisations and individuals for any action
undertaken following our appeal.

Geneva, 19 January 1993
LAYOUT 000
From: mcole@sub-40 (Mary Cole)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: domestic violence & the super bowl
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:07:01 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

Here's a message I received today. Please add your support to it and help  
others:


|>From POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU!JRYCENGA Wed Jan 20 11:52:44 1993
|
|For political activists, or media watchdogs, or just concerned
|women, here's a quick something you can do to help prevent
|and stop domestic violence.
|
|Super Bowl Sunday - which this year is January 31, here in southern
|California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena - is the single worst day
|for domestic violence in the USA.  There is an increase of as much as 40%  
in the volume handled by domestic violence shelters on this
|day.
|
|To try to stem this tide of violence, the Women's Action Coalition
(WAC) of Los Angeles is supporting the campaign by Fairness and Accuracy  
in Reporting (FAIR) to convince NBC (the network carrying the game) to  
carry two Public Service Announcements on domestic violence during the  
Super Bowl this year.  Anna Quindlen of the New York Times wrote a fine  
editorial in the 1/17/93 edition of the Times supporting this effort as  
well.
|
|What I am asking of you - and all your friends (please PLEASE
cross-post this to _any_ lists you can think of) - is to help us with a  
FAX/LETTER blitz on NBC, asking for these PSA's.  Here is a sample letter:
|
|Dick Ebersol
|President, NBC Sports
|NBC
|30 Rockefeller Plaza
|New York, NY  10112
|
|Dear Mr. Ebersol:
|
|We (I) support FAIR's request that you air two Public Service
Announcements on domestic violence during the Super Bowl game.  The Super  
Bowl is one of the most widely viewed television events of the year; it is  
also the day, according to women's shelters, when calls for help increase  
by as much as 40%.
|
|Your broadcast of the Super Bowl will reach a huge audience.  By your  
airing PSAs, NBC will be bringing to a national audience the critical and  
important issue of domestic violence.
|
|Sincerely,
|
|
|   You can rephrase or rewrite this letter to your liking, but please FAX  
or write them immediately.
|
|To reach NBC by FAX:  212-664-5835.
|
|   Thanks for helping - you may save someone's life, or skeletal
structure, or eyesight.
|
From: hrcoord@igc.apc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: HUMAN RIGHTS: COSTA RICA PROPOSES E
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:41:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701011:000:2288
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 22 11:41:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: HUMAN RIGHTS: COSTA RICA PROPOSES E

/* Written 12:13 am  Jan 22, 1993 by newsdesk@igc.apc.org in
igc:ips.englibrary */ Copyright Inter Press Service 1993, all
rights reserved.  Permission to re- print within 7 days of
original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: COSTA RICA PROPOSES EQUAL RIGHTS FOR
DISABLED

san jose, jan 19 (ips) -- the costa rican government is to present
a proposal for an international agreement to safeguard the rights
of disabled people, at the latin american preparatory conference
on human rights, currently taking place in the costa rican
capital, san jose.

the proposal, drafted by members of the world organisation for the
disabled (wod), will be submitted to regional delegates on friday
and it is hoped that the document will subsequently be presented
at the united nations world conference on human rights in june in
vienna.

according to rodrigo jimenez, regional treasurer of the wod, most
countries still treat their disabled population with a mixture of
pity, mockery and indifference.

however, jimenez said in recent years government organisations had
shown increased awareness and sensitivity towards the needs of
disabled people, partly because of the growing number of people
who suffer from some type of physical disablity, but mainly as a
result of international campaigns for the disabled during the
1980's.

despite improved attitudes towards people with disabilities,
jimenez stressed that ''almost 95 percent of the disabled are
unemployed and the majority of disabled women and childen suffer
subtle forms of abuse.''

he said the numerous official declarations and pronouncements in
defence of the rights of the disabled had not been accompanied by
strategic planning and the necessary financial resources to
establish adequate training and work schemes for this sector of
the community.

''the achievements to date give us hope for the future, but these
must not remain as good and worthy intentions,'' jimenez said.

the wod representative stressed the need for immediate and
effective programmes for the disabled ''because these people are
joining the urban misery belts as a result of the lack of
government action.'' (ends/ips/trd-sp/cr/ds/cg/93)
----
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 24 Jan 93 13:53 PST
Subject: Thai: Nobel Winners to Visit
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701030:000:1835
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 24 13:53:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Thai: Nobel Winners to Visit

/* Written 10:30 am  Jan 24, 1993 by tun@quark.SFSU.EDU in
igc:reg.seasia */

RTw  01/23 0302  NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS TO VISIT THAILAND

    BANGKOK, Jan 23, Reuter - A group of Nobel Peace Prize
recipients will visit Thailand next month to press the Rangoon
government into releasing Burmese dissident and fellow prize
winner Aung San Suu Kyi, a statement said on Saturday.
    The group will travel with staff of the Montreal-based
International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.
It will arrive in Bangkok on February 16 for five days, the centre
said in a statement.
    The Peace Prize laureates are former Costa Rican president
Oscar Arias, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire and
Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
    They plan to meet Thai officials to express concerns over
human rights violations in Burma. They will also visit a Thai town
on Burma's border to interview refugees.
    The group wanted to travel to Rangoon to meet Suu Kyi, but
anticipated the Burmese military junta, the State Law and Order
Restoration Council (SLORC), would reject the request, the
statement said.
    It did not say whether the group would pursue a meeting with
Suu Kyi while in Bangkok. She was awarded the Peace Prize in 1991
for opposing the SLORC.
    Her National League for Democracy won Burma's May 1990 general
election by
a landslide, but the SLORC arrested most of its leaders and
refused to handover power.
    Suu Kyi, 47, has been under house arrest in Rangoon since July
1989. Her husband and the Nobel Institute in Oslo issued a
statement last November saying her life has been under grave
threat.
    The SLORC has said it will not release her unless she promises
to give up politics and leave Burma.
 REUTER SUT JLW JB
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:59 PST
Subject: Bosnia: Peace Action Statement
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476701049:000:2956
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Jan 26 17:59:00 1993


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Bosnia: Peace Action Statement

/* Written  2:21 pm  Jan 26, 1993 by sfnatldc@igc.apc.org in igc:sf.media */

                 STATEMENT ON BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

PEACE ACTION
(formerly SANE/FREEZE:Campaign for Global Security)

Approved by the national Board, January 24, 1993

The violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and throughout the former Yugoslavia,
challenges us to think and act in new ways.  Our 50,000 members work to
achieve peace with justice, at home and abroad.  We oppose war as an
instrument of national policy.  We work for disarmament, abolition of the arms
trade, and conversion from military to a peace economy -- at home and abroad. 
We believe that violence solves nothing.  We work to help our country create a
new role as one among many nations, working multi-laterally for the good of
all.

Based on these goals and principles, we call on our members and our government
to:

1.Support legislation which strengthens the condemnation and consequences for
violence and war crimes against civilians, -- especially rape and violence
against women; this includes legislation (H.R.32) introduced by Representative
George Miller and Senator Frank Lautenberg.

2.Increase citizen support for organizations, including the Experts Committee
on Ex-Yugoslavia, and publications working for peaceful and just resolution of
the conflicts in former Yugoslavia, and demands that these voices be included
in the Geneva peace talks.

3.Immediately expand the scale and delivery of humanitarian aid -- including
sending a corps of health professionals to provide assistance to the victims
of the war, and expanding actions designed to heal as well as report on the
tragic costs of war.

4.Identify the names of those responsible for war crimes and violations of UN
charter through a permanent and forceful war crimes process which follows
acknowledged processes of international law.

5.Increase the United States willingness to accept and help refugees.

6.Oppose any unilateral use of United States armed forces, which will only
expand and exacerbate the war throughout the former Yugoslavia.

7.In order to support United Nations peace-keeping efforts to prevent the
further spread of violence, observing international law, the United States
must immediately pay its nearly $800 million debt.

We call on President Clinton to take immediate initiatives to mobilize world
leaders, through the United Nations, on behalf of an immediate cease-fire
designed to stop the killing, and create peaceful resolution to the conflict
as well as an end to ethnic strife.  
We understand that long-term solutions to the violence in Yugoslavia and other
areas of the world, are directly linked to the abolition of the arms trade,
conversion from a world military to a peacetime economy, and the creation of
non-violent structures for peace-making and conflict resolution.  We will
continue to work for these goals.  .