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 2
b. Disappearance 4
c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 5
d. Arbitrary Arrest or Detention 9
e. Denial of Fair Public Trial 13
f. Arbitrary or Unlawful Interference with Privacy, Family, Home, or Correspondence 18
g. Abuses in Internal Conflict 19
Section 2. Respect for Civil Liberties, Including: 22
a. Freedom of Speech and Press 22
b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association 29
c. Freedom of Religion 30
d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees, and Stateless Persons 30
Section 3. Freedom to Participate in the Political Process 35
Section 4. Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government 38
Section 5. Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights 39
Section 6. Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in Persons 40
Section 7. Worker Rights 50
a. Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining 50
b. Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor 50
c. Prohibition of Child Labor and Minimum Age for Employment 52
d. Discrimination with Respect to Employment and Occupation 52
e. Acceptable Conditions of Work 54