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Introduction





Asia

Europe and Central Asia

Middle East and North Africa

Special Issues and Campaigns

United States

Arms

Children’s Rights

Women’s Human Rights

Appendix




Missions
Africa Division
Americas Division
Asia Division
Europe and Central Asia Division
Middle East and North Africa Division
Arms Division
Children's Rights Division
Women's Rights Division

Africa Division

Angola: Advocacy, including report release (December 1999).

Belgium: Advocacy (December 1999).

Burundi: Research; work with local nongovernmental organizations (December 1999, February-April, August-September).

Democratic Republic of Congo: Research; advocacy on government measures to demobilize child soldiers and for the release of long-term political prisoners in Kinshasa; work with local nongovernmental organizations (December 1999, February-April, May, August-September).

Guinea: Research on treatment of refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia and attacks on Guinean civilians by suspected rebels from Sierra Leone and Liberia (September).

Malawi: Advocacy regarding ratification of the Rome Treaty to establish the International Criminal Court; work with national nongovernmental organizations on campaign plans for speedy ratification (October).

Namibia: Advocacy regarding ratification of the Rome Treaty to establish the International Criminal Court; work with national nongovernmental organizations on campaign plans for speedy ratification (October).

Netherlands: Advocacy (December 1999).

Nigeria: Research on the deteriorating situation in the Delta; and work with local nongovernmental organizations (November-December 1999).

Republic of Congo: Research, Brazzaville (May).

Rwanda: Research and advocacy; work with local nongovernmental organizations (December 1999, February-April, August-September).

South Africa: Research on sexual violence and harassment in the schools and the right to education (March-April); follow-up research and hold workshops on farm violence and the criminal justice system, in partnership with the National Land Committee, a local nongovernmental organization (September); advocacy on the International Criminal Court (October).

Swaziland: Advocacy on the International Criminal Court (October).

Uganda: Research on the northern border of Kenya on the relief effort in Sudan and work with local nongovernmental organizations (July); work with local nongovernmental organizations (December 1999, February-April, May, August-September).

Zambia: Advocacy during the World Bank's Consultative Group meeting; release of report with Afronet, a local nongovernmental organization (December 1999).

Americas Division

Brazil: Meet with government officials to discuss recent developments in policy affecting human rights (October).

Colombia: Research in the area of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) on laws of war violations (May-June).

Chile: Attended appeals court hearings on Pinochet's immunity (April); meetings with officials and human rights lawyers to discuss Pinochet case and freedom of expression concerns (June).

Haiti: Research on the post-election parliamentary situation and continued human rights abuses since the OAS/U.N.'s mission departure (June-July).

Panama: Mission to intercede with Panamanian government not to grant political asylum to former Peruvian spymaster, Vladimiro Montesinos (October).

Peru: Research election conditions (March); research conditions for run-off election (May); observer of meeting of Peruvian NGOs with OAS representative Lloyd Axworthy and OAS Secretary General Cesar Gaviria (June-July); observed election protests (July).

Asia Division

Austria: Advocacy, U.N. Crimes Commission Congress (April); research on Trafficking (June).

China: Participant in a U.N. workshop on human rights in the Asia Pacific region, Beijing (March).

Cambodia: Avocacy with Cambodian NGOs and government officials about draft legislation to try Khmer Rouge leaders and to monitor negotiations between the U.N. and the Cambodia government on establishing a tribunal (January); research on the situation of Vietnamese asylum-seekers in Cambodia and UNHCR policy towards them (March); research and networking with Cambodian NGOs working on the issue of confiscation of indigenous minority lands by the Cambodian military for a case due to go to trial in December (November, 1999).

East Timor and Indonesia: Research of continuing obstacles to justice (establishing accountability) for the terror and destruction in East Timor after the U.N.-supervised vote in September 1999 (August); research in East Timor and West Timor (October-November 1999).

India: Convened a meeting of state representatives to the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights-a nationwide NGO coalition born out of Human Rights Watch's work on caste-based abuse and discrimination in India-on future campaign strategies; advocacy in several national-level campaign events, including a protest rally in the capital that culminated in the submission of 2.5 million signatures to India's prime minister demanding the abolishment of "untouchability"; trial observer during the Justice Mohan Commission hearings in Tamil Nadu, set up to look into allegations of excessive use of force by the police during labor protests that resulted in the deaths of seventeen lower-caste laborers on July 23, 1999, in Tirunelveli district (December 1999).

Japan: Advocacy (June).

Malaysia: Research on treatment of Burmese refugees in Malaysia (November-December ).

Sri Lanka: Attended the Neelan Tiruchelvam Commemoration in Colombo, held to honor the life and work of Neelan Tiruchelvam, a renowned Tamil human rights activist who was killed in a LTTE suicide bombing in 1999 (January/February).

Switzerland: Advocacy in Geneva at the Preparatory Meeting for Beijing +5 (January); advocacy at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (April); present at first prepcom for the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance; advocacy for the inclusion of caste and other forms of descent-based discrimination on the agenda, with Dalit NGO representatives of the International Dalit Solidarity Network (May); advocacy on Malaysia refugee report through meetings with UNHCR and donor governments (July); UNHCR Executive Committee Meeting (September-October).

Thailand: Advocacy at meeting of the Asian Development Bank and People's Forum 2000 and an alternative NGO gathering convened prior to the ADB Meeting (May 2000); concerning the International Criminal Court (June); at the Asia regional Experts Meeting in preparation for the U.N. World Conference Against (September); the International Conference on Corruption, Democracy and Development.(September); the Regional Seminar on Job Discrimination Against Women (September); and participation in a meeting on Research Training on Trafficking of Women. Research on changes in Thai policy toward Burmese refugees and on forced relocation of villages in Burma (February/March).

United Kingdom: Convened London meeting resulting in the formation of the International Dalit Solidarity Network (March); advocacy to release report, Reform or Repression? Post-Coup Abuses in Pakistan (October); advocacy (October).

United States: Observer at the World Trade Organization summit December 1999 in Seattle, Washington (December, 1999); legislative Hearings on Sexual Abuse of Women in Prison (October); General Assembly Special Session on Women (June).

Europe and Central Asia Division

Austria: Attend OSCE migration seminar (September).

Azerbaijan: Research, human rights in the pre-election period (September-October);

research (May).

Belarus: Research, allegations of labor rights violations in Minsk, Gomel, Mogilev, Brest, and Belarus (December 1999).

Belgium: Advocacy, meetings with the E.U. on Turkey and Central Asia (November 1999 and May).

Bosnia and Hercegovina: Research on refugee returns (March, May, October ).

Croatia: Research, pre-election conditions (November 1999).

Czech Republic: Attend IMF/World Bank annual meetings (September).

Europe: Advocacy on Chechnya and Central Asia in Czech Republic, Poland, France, and Switzerland (March).

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Kosovo: Research on war crimes (November 1999); research on impunity and security in post-war Kosovo, particularly as they affect minorities (May).

Serbia: Research on post-election transition (October).

France: Advocacy on Chechnya at the Council of Europe (January, April, September); attended Europe regional meeting for World Conference Against Racism (September-October).

Georgia: Advocacy for release of report (September); ongoing research from Tbilisi office.

Germany:Advocacy, on the current situation in Kosovo (April).

Ireland: Attend Council of Europe Human Rights Conference (March).

Russia: Ongoing research and advocacy through Moscow office; ongoing presence in Ingushetia to research abuses in Chechnya (November 1999 to May 2000).

Switzerland: Advocacy on Central Asia at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights (March ); meeting on migrants' rights issues (Sept.-Oct. 2000).

Tajikistan: Ongoing research from Dushanbe office through May 2000.

Turkey: Attended OSCE Summit (November 1999); attended Turkish Human Rights Association's conference on prison conditions and investigated conditions in small-group isolation prisons (January 2000); met with civil society and government officials regarding prison conditions and planned reform; released a report on prison conditions (May); monitored trial of journalist Nadire Mater (September).

Uzbekistan: Ongoing research and advocacy from Tashkent office. Research on violence against women (May-June).

Middle East and North Africa Division

Algeria: Research and government meetings (May).

Egypt: Government meetings (March); research (August/September).

Geneva: Advocacy (July).

Iran: Research (April-May).

Israel/PA: Advocacy (May); NGO and government meetings (June); research on recent violence (October).

Jordan: Research (February/March, August/September).

Kuwait: Research (April).

Lebanon: Research (May); trial observation (June).

Morocco: Conference-workshop on improving NGO advocacy (March).

Yemen: Advocacy and consultation with nongovernmental organizations (February).

Arms Division

Belgium: Participation in Landmine Monitor Researchers Meeting (February).

Bulgaria: Advocacy, Sofia (December).

Denmark: Advocacy, presentation on the humanitarian impact of arms flows to Africa (June).

Egypt: Participation in Landmine Monitor Regional Researchers Workshop and Regional Conference on Landmines (April).

France: Advocacy, public events on landmines, Paris, and ICBL coordination committee meeting (September).

Netherlands: Participation in Landmine Monitor Researchers Meeting (May).

South Africa: Meeting with government officials and other contacts in advance of the release of report on South Africa's arms trade and human rights (October).

Sweden: Participation in meeting on corruption in the arms trade co-hosted by Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Transparency International (February).

Switzerland: Participation in diplomatic meeting on stockpile destruction and in first meeting of states parties to Protocol II or Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) (December 1999); participation in diplomatic meeting on general operation and status of mine ban treaty (January); participation in ICBL coordination committee meeting (May); participation in diplomatic meeting on stockpile destruction and on general operation and status of mine ban treaty (May); participation in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty (September).

Ukraine: Participation in Landmine Monitor Regional Researchers Workshop (October).

United States: Participation in U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines events in Des Moines, Iowa (January); briefing on "Landmines in Mozambique" to conference co-sponsored by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State and the National Intelligence Council in Washington DC (April); participation in General Electric shareholders annual meeting in support of resolution on GE's landmine production in Richmond, Virginia (April); participation in Peacejam board meeting in New York City on behalf of Jody Williams (June); participation in U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines events in Washington D.C. (July); participation in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event (September); small arms seminar hosted by NISAT and the Red Cross (October).

Children's Rights Division

Canada: Participation in the International Conference on War-Affected Children (September).

Hungary:Participation in UNICEF- sponsored conference: "Children Deprived of Parental Care: Rights and Realities" (October).

Nepal: Participation in Asia-Pacific Conference on the Use of Children as Soldiers (May).

Switzerland: Advocacy at the U.N. Working Group negotiating the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (January); participation in the Committee on the Rights of the Child day of discussion on state violence against children (September).

United States: Child Farmworkers in the United States (June 1999-April 2000); violence and Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Public Schools (October 1999-October 2000); California, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Utah Discrimination Against Girls in South African Schools (March-April).

Women's Rights Division

Algeria: Research, violence against women during the armed conflict and discrimination against women in family law (May).

Guatemala: Research, labor rights of female live-in domestic workers as well as maquiladora workers (May-June).

Netherlands: Advocacy in The Hague to discuss sex crimes during the Kosovo conflict (May).

United Kingdom: Advocacy in London to discuss report on Kosovo, Rape as a Weapon of "Ethnic Cleansing," and the OSCE (October).

Morocco: Research and advocacy on discrimination and violence against women in the family (June-July).

Peru: Research, violence against women in the family (December 1999).

South Africa: Research, violence and discrimination against female farm workers (March-April, September).

United States: Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues in California, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Utah (October 1999-October 2000); research into sexual abuse in women's prisons (January-February).

Uzbekistan: Research, violence against women in the family (May-June).





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