UID:
almafu_9958092592302883
Format:
1 online resource (80 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-19617-3
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9786610196173
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0-309-58499-X
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0-585-08591-9
Content:
"Report on the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences and the Committee on Health and Human Rights of the Institute of Medicine, recording a trip made to Guatemala in 1992 that investigated the murder of anthropologist Myra Mack and focused attention on human rights problems in the country. Informative and well written"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Note:
At head of title: National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Human Rights; Institute of Medicine, Committee on Health and Human Rights.
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""SCIENTISTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN GUATEMALA""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Guatemala, An Overview""; ""CIVILIAN GOVERNMENTS""; ""A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE""; ""The Conflict""; ""Universities, Professors, and Students""; ""Disappearances""; ""The Myrna Mack Case""; ""THE COMMITTEES' WORK IN GUATEMALA""; ""VISIT TO GUATEMALA, JUNE 1991""; ""The 1992 Mission""; ""TERMS OF REFERENCE""; ""GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVES""; ""The Mack Case""; ""Disappearances and Political Killings""; ""The Police and the Armed Forces""; ""Judicial System Officials""; ""Ministry of Public Health""
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""Office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights""""Presidential Coordinating Committee on Human Rights Policies""; ""UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS""; ""University of San Carlos""; ""Association for the Advancement of the Social Sciences""; ""SERVICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS""; ""National Coordinating Committee of Guatemalan Widows""; ""Human Rights Office of the Archdiocese""; ""Christian Children's Fund""; ""Behrhorst Foundation""; ""Findings and Conclusions""; ""THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT""; ""NONGOVERNMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS EFFORTS""; ""INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT""
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""POLITICAL KILLINGS AND DISAPPEARANCES""""THE CASE OF MYRNA MACK""; ""SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH""; ""Appendix A The Committees ""; ""COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS""; ""COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS""; ""Appendix B Cases in Guatemala ""; ""CASES PRESENTED ON MISSION""; ""Political Killings""; ""Disappearances""; ""ADDITIONAL CASES IN GUATEMALA""; ""Political Killings""; ""Disappearances""; ""Threats""; ""Other Human Rights Abuses""; ""Appendix C Members of the Delegation ""; ""Appendix D Guatemalan Judicial Procedure and the Mack Case ""; ""INITIAL INVESTIGATION""
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""THE PREPARATORY OR ''SUMARIO'' PHASE""""THE INTERMEDIATE OR ""ABRE A JUICIO"" PHASE""; ""THE ACCUSATORY PHASE""; ""THE APPELLATE PROCESS""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-309-04793-5
Language:
English
