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 5
d. Arbitrary Arrest or Detention 10
e. Denial of Fair Public Trial 16
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: 31
a. Freedom of Speech and Press 31
b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association 37
c. Freedom of Religion 41
d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees, and Stateless Persons 41
Section 3. Freedom to Participate in the Political Process 49
Section 4. Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government 53
Section 5. Governmental Attitude Regarding International and Nongovernmental Investigation of Alleged Violations of Human Rights 54
Section 6. Discrimination, Societal Abuses, and Trafficking in Persons 57
Section 7. Worker Rights 66
a. Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining 66
b. Prohibition of Forced or Compulsory Labor 68
c. Prohibition of Child Labor and Minimum Age for Employment 68
d. Discrimination with Respect to Employment and Occupation 69
e. Acceptable Conditions of Work 70