Contents
Executive Summary 1
Section 1. Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom from: 3
a. Arbitrary Deprivation of Life and other Unlawful or Politically Motivated Killings 3
b. Disappearance 5
c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 6
d. Arbitrary Arrest or Detention 11
e. Denial of Fair Public Trial 17
f. Arbitrary or Unlawful Interference with Privacy, Family, Home, or Correspondence 20
g. Abuses in Internal Conflict 21
Section 2. Respect for Civil Liberties, Including: 26
a. Freedom of Speech and Press 26
b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association 32
c. Freedom of Religion 34
d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees, and Stateless Persons 34
Section 3. Freedom to Participate in the Political Process 41
Section 4. Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government 43
Section 5. Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights 47
Section 6. Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in Persons 49
Section 7. Worker Rights 61
a. Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining 61
b. Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor 62
c. Prohibition of Child Labor and Minimum Age for Employment 62
d. Discrimination with Respect to Employment and Occupation 64
e. Acceptable Conditions of Work 64