OEA/Ser.L/V/II.61
Doc. 22 rev. 1
27 September 1983
Original:  Spanish

 

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
1982 - 1983

 

 

INTRODUCTION  

 

CHAPTER I

LEGAL ORIGIN AND BASES OF THE INTER AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

 

CHAPTER II

GENERAL SITUATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MEMBER STATES OF THE OAS

Introduction

Right to Life

Right to Personal Freedom and Protection against Arbitrary Arrest

Right to Fair Trial and Due Process

Freedom of Conscience and Religion

Right to Freedom of Investigation, Opinion, Expression and Dissemination

Political Rights

 

CHAPTER III

AREAS IN WHICH FURTHER STEPS ARE NEEDED TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS SET FORTH IN THE AMERICAN DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN AND THE AMERICAN CONVENVENTON ON HUMAN RIGHTS

RECOMMENDATIONS

CHAPTER IV

RESOLUTIONS ON INDIVUAL CASES

 

CHAPTER V

ACTIVITIES OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

A.   Fifty-Seventh Period of Session (Extraordinary)

B.   On-Site Visit to Guatemala

C.   Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Organization of American States

D.   Fifty-Eighth Period of Sessions

E.   Follow-up to the On-Site Visit in Guatemala with a visit to the Guatemalan refugees along the border in the State of Chiapas, Mexico

F.   Fifty-Ninth Period of Session

G.   Request for an advisory opinion presented by the IACHR

H.   Follow-up visits to Nicaragua and Honduras by the Executive Secretary of the Commission to further the friendly settlement of the situation of the Nicaraguan citizens of Miskito origin

I.   On-Site visit to Suriname

J.   Sixtieth Period of Sessions

K.   Hearing before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the interpretation Article 4.2 of the American Convention on Human Rights