AAA Committee for Human Rights

Documents

The Committee for Human Rights commissions updates and reports, authors letters, and provides a resource for collecting documentation on human rights issues globally. The following documents represent the corpus of documents produced under the committee's aegis since 1995.

If you would like to author a report or update on a human rights issue for CfHR, please contact us at: pnuti@aaanet.org

CfHR Human Rights Updates, Reports, and Briefing Documents (in chronological order, with key author and date)
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Update on the Colombian Crisis (pdf)
Santa Fe Group Statement on Chixoy (pdf)
Draft - Statement on the Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur, Sudan (December 2004)
Labor and Human Rights: 'The Real Thing' in Colombia (pdf)
Anthropologist Reflects on Guatemalan Human Rights
Cause of Death: The Role of Anthropology in the Enforcement of Human Rights The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples (Kimmerle, April 2004)
Anthropologist Reflects on Guatemalan Human Rights
The San of Southern Africa: A Status Report, 2003
Task Force on Plan Colombia - The Crisis in Colombia: Consequences for Indigenous Peoples
CEDAW: A Treaty for the Rights of Women
AAA Delegate to Trial in Guatemala Reaffirms Support of and Security for Anthropologists' Work There (June Nash, DATE)
Urgent Update on Indigenous Human Rights Abuses: Colombia
Amnesty International USA's Urgent Action - Concern for Safety
Experimentation in the use of microherbicides in rural areas of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia
Report on Situation of Jarawa Tribal Minority, Andaman Islands (Turner, July 1999)
The Pehuenche, the World Bank Group and ENDESA S.A (Johnston and Turner, March 1998) (see also follow up letters from AAA President Jane Hill and Carol Lee of IFC to James Wolfenshon of the World Bank Group by clicking here, as well as commentary by Scott Robinson, IFC consultant in the planning stage of the Pangue project by clicking here).
Human Rights, Development, and the Peoples of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana (AUTHOR, September 1997)
Brazil's Giant Step Backward on Indigenous Rights (Turner, February 1996)

Correspondence and Statements from AAA and/or CfHR

Correspondence to CfHR

Science, religion and worldview in the protection and construction of social and cultural rights in Southern Chile

Documents Regarding the Yanomami and the El Dorado Task Force

Yanomami of Brazil: Health (Report December 2001)
The Yanomami of Brazil
The Yanomami of Venezuela: New Findings and Concerns following all-Yanomami meeting, November 20-23, 2001
Report of the Special Commission to Investigate the Situation of the Brazilian Yanomami (Historic documents from 1991)

Final Report of the El Dorado Task Force

Preface to the Final Report of the El Dorado Task Force
El Dorado Task Force Papers - Volume One (pdf - 500kb)
El Dorado Task Force Papers - Volume Two (pdf - 726kb)

Other El Dorado Task Force Documents and Links

AAA El Dorado Task Force - Board motion establishing the Task Force
Letter of Resignation from El Dorado Task Force by Raymond Hames
Referendum on Darkness in El Dorado & Danger to Immunization Campaign
The Task force recognizes the multiplicity of Web sites devoted to this issue (i.e. http://www.anth.uconn.edu/gradstudents/dhume/darkness_in_el_dorado/index.htm) and does not attempt to list those resources here.

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