Contents
Executive Summary 1
Section 1. Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom from: 2
a. Arbitrary Deprivation of Life and other Unlawful or Politically Motivated Killings 3
b. Disappearance 4
c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 5
d. Arbitrary Arrest or Detention 11
e. Denial of Fair Public Trial 14
f. Arbitrary or Unlawful Interference with Privacy, Family, Home, or Correspondence 19
g. Abuses in Internal Conflict 20
Section 2. Respect for Civil Liberties, Including: 23
a. Freedom of Speech and Press 23
b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association 32
c. Freedom of Religion 37
d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees, and Stateless Persons 37
Section 3. Freedom to Participate in the Political Process 43
Section 4. Official Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government 48
Section 5. Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights 50
Section 6. Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in Persons 55
Section 7. Worker Rights 75
a. Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining 75
b. Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor 77
c. Prohibition of Child Labor and Minimum Age for Employment 78
d. Discrimination with Respect to Employment and Occupation 79
e. Acceptable Conditions of Work 81