Committee for Human Rights Documents
The Committee for Human Rights commissions and reports, authors letters, and provides a resource for collecting documentation on human rights issues globally. The following documents represent the corpus of documents produced under the committee's aegis since 1995.
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CfHR Human Rights Updates, Reports, and Briefing Documents (in chronological order, with key author and date)
- The Right to Self Determination of Peoples
- The Awá of Southern Colombia: a "Perfect Storm" of Violence
- Guatemala Human Rights: Overview of Morgue Operations
- Update on the Colombian Crisis
- Santa Fe Group Statement on Chixoy
- Draft - Statement on the Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur, Sudan (December 2004)
- Labor and Human Rights: 'The Real Thing' in Colombia
- Cause of Death: The Role of Anthropology in the Enforcement of Human Rights The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples (Kimmerle, April 2004)
- Anthropologist Reflects on Guatemalan Human Rights
- The San of Southern Africa: A Status Report, 2003
- The Crisis in Colombia: Consequences for Indigenous Peoples (Task Force on Plan Colombia)
- CEDAW: A Treaty for the Rights of Women
- AAA Delegate to Trial in Guatemala Reaffirms Support of and Security for Anthropologists' Work There (June Nash)
- Urgent Update on Indigenous Human Rights Abuses: Colombia
- Amnesty International USA's Urgent Action - Concern for Safety
- Experimentation in the use of microherbicides in rural areas of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia
- Report on Situation of Jarawa Tribal Minority, Andaman Islands (Turner, July 1999)
- The Pehuenche, the World Bank Group and ENDESA S.A (Johnston and Turner, March 1998) (see also follow up letters from AAA President Jane Hill and Carol Lee of IFC to James Wolfenshon of the World Bank Group by clicking here, as well as commentary by Scott Robinson, IFC consultant in the planning stage of the Pangue project by clicking here).
- Human Rights, Development, and the Peoples of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana (September 1997)
- Brazil's Giant Step Backward on Indigenous Rights (Turner, February 1996)
Correspondence and Statements from AAA and/or CfHR
Correspondence to CfHR
Documents Regarding the Yanomami
