U.S. Policy and the Crisis of Violence in Colombia:

A packet for education and advocacy

The Latin America Working Group has produced a resource packet for public educational work on human rights in Colombia. The packet includes:

• Action suggestions and sample letter
  

• Current U.S. military and counternarcotics aid to Colombia
  
• The Crisis of Human Rights in Colombia: It's Time to Internationalize the Peace Process, by Mark Chernick, member of Colombia Human Rights Committee Advisory Board
  
• Foreign Policy in Focus: Colombia, by Carlos Salinas, member of Colombia Human Rights Committee Advisory Board (produced by the Foreign Policy In Focus project, a joint undertaking of Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies)
  
• Losing Ground: Human Rights Advocated Under Attack in Colombia, excerpts from 1997 report by the Washington Office on Latin America.
  
• "Just what do we have to do to stay alive?" Internally Displaced: Dispossessed and Exiled in their Own Land, 1997 report by Amnesty International.

To obtain the packet contact the Latin America Working Group, 110 Maryland Ave., NE, Box 15, Washington, DC 20002; tel. 202/546-7010, fax 202/543-7647.

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