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OEA/Ser.L/V/II.83
Doc. 16 rev.
June 1, 1993
Original: Spanish

FOURTH REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN GUATEMALA

BACKGROUND

CHAPTER I: THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT, THE ATTENDANT RIGHTS AND THE PLANNED GOVERNMENT MEASURES

CHAPTER II: LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES

CHAPTER III: THE GUATEMALAN MAYA-QUICHE POPULATION AND THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS

CHAPTER IV: RIGHT TO LIFE AND HUMANE TREATMENT

CHAPTER V: THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM AND PROHIBITION OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE

CHAPTER VI: THE VOLUNTARY SELF-DEFENSE COMMITTEES

CHAPTER VII: THE SITUATION OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS IN GUATEMALA AND THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS

CHAPTER VIII: COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLES IN RESISTANCE

CHAPTER IX: FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, EXPRESSION, ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATION (LABOR UNIONS, THE UNIVERSITIES)

CHAPTER X: THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF GUATEMALAN CHILDREN

CHAPTER XI: IRREGULAR ARMED GROUPS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

CHAPTER XII: CONCLUSIONS



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