Scientists and Human Rights in Guatemala. Report of a Delegation

摘要

Violations of human rights directed against Guatemalan scientists, engineers, andhealth professionals have been a long-standing concern of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Human Rights (CHR) and the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Health and Human Rights (CHHR). A delegation visited Guatemala City from February 27 to March 3, 1992. Its mission was to inform concerned individuals, human rights groups, and colleagues in science organizations and sister academies of sciences who share concern about the need to protect the human rights of fellow scientists and others in Guatemala. The report summarizes some of the committees' efforts concerning cases in Guatemala, beginning in the early 1980s.