Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cylixd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akgub!cylixd!charli From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory,net.politics Subject: Re: Yugo automobile and human rights Message-ID: <220@cylixd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 17:09:31 EDT Article-I.D.: cylixd.220 Posted: Fri Aug 23 17:09:31 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:10:09 EDT References: <292@ubvax.UUCP> <28200051@inmet.UUCP> <163@gargoyle.UUCP> <911@mtuxo.UUCP> Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN Lines: 44 Xref: watmath net.politics.theory:976 net.politics:10614 Summary: In article <911@mtuxo.UUCP> whg1@mtuxo.UUCP (w.georger) writes: > >Does anyone on the net have >any easily verifiable facts/opinions regarding the status of [human] rights >in the State of Yugoslavia? >Norm Andrews Believe it or not, one of the best and most reliable sources of information on the status of human rights in Europe is our own government. As a party to the Helsinki accords, the United States carefully tracks violations of the provisions of that agreement. You would be interested in Basket Three (the Human Rights basket). For recent information, just write: Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe U. S. House of Representatives Washington, DC Ask for hearings and mark-ups related to human rights in Yugoslavia. They are free. (If you are really interested in human rights world-wide, you might ask to be put on their mailing list for all Basket Three hearings. My husband and I have done that.) If there is a depository of government documents at an area library, you might check there if you want the information fast. CSCE can be slow to respond, but they do send you the information eventually. Other reliable sources of information are Amnesty International (general human rights information) and Christian Response International (religious freedom). (There are lots of others; I can vouch for the reliability of these two organizations.) As far as Eastern Bloc countries go, Yugoslavia is bad, but not by any means the worst. It allows more rights and liberties than, say, Romania or Czechoslovakia, but is more repressive than East Germany or Poland. It is a one-party Marxist-Leninist regime, and consistently violates the Helsinki Accords, the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other agreements which it has signed. It just doesn't violate them as often or as severely as some others. (I don't have any of my references on human rights here at work. If you want information instead of just sources, send me mail. I'd be happy to send it to you.) charli