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Series IV: Janet Fleischmann Files, 1974-1990
Series V: Ted Zang Files, 1978-1990
Series VI: Ivana Nizich Files, 1990-1995
Series VII: Chris Panico Files, 1979-1992
Series VIII: New York Office Files, 1975-1996
Series IX: Washington D.C. Office Files, 1978-1998
Series X: International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Files, 1975-1996
Series XI: USSR/Independent States Files, 1983-1997

Human Rights Watch records: Record Group 1: Helsinki Watch, 1952-2003, bulk 1978-1994

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Series IX: Washington D.C. Office Files, 1978-1998

The files consist of correspondence, manuscripts, memorandums, newspaper clippings, photographs and research materials utilized in the development of reports. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject.


Box IX 1 Folder 1 Abkhazia--Press Clips, 1993-1994

Afghanistan

Box IX 1 Folder 2 Afghan Conflict, 1992-1994

Box IX 1 Folder 3 General, 1984-1985

Box IX 1 Folder 4-15 Press Clips, 1988 January-December, (10 Folders)


Box IX 2 Folder 1 Albania--Women's Issues, 1992-1996

Armenia

Box IX 2 Folder 2 Foreign Policy--United States, 1993-1994

Box IX 2 Folder 3 Karabagh Conflict, 1994

Box IX 2 Folder 4 Military, 1992-1994

Australia

Box IX 2 Folder 5 General, 1992-1995

Box IX 2 Folder 6 Press Clips, 1992-1995

Box IX 2 Folder 7 Austria--Women's Issues, 1992-1993

Azerbaijan

Foreign Policy

Box IX 2 Folder 8 Turkey, 1993-1994

Box IX 2 Folder 9 United States, 1993-1994

Box IX 2 Folder 10 Karabagh Conflict--Air Attacks, 1994

Box IX 2 Folder 11 Military, 1992-1994

Box IX 2 Folder 12 Nakhichevan, 1992-1994

Box IX 2 Folder 13 Baltic States--Human Rights Watch--Missions, 1993-1994

Box IX 2 Folder 14 Belgium--Women's Issues, 1996

Bosnia

Box IX 2 Folder 15 General, 1992-1995


Box IX 3 Folder 1-3 General, 1996, 1998, 1996, 1998, (3 Folders)

Box IX 3 Folder 4 Hearing: "Sanjak Hearing" (Congressional Human Rights Caucus, (1996 September 12), 1990-1996

Box IX 3 Folder 5 Press Clips, 1992-1993

Box IX 3 Folder 6 Report: Update: Non-Compliance with the Dayton Accords, 1996 August

War Crimes

Box IX 3 Folder 7 Correspondence, 1992-1996

[restricted until 2072]

Box IX 3 Folder 8 G-7 Outreach Response, 1996

Tribunal

Box IX 3 Folder 9 Correspondence, 1993

Box IX 3 Folder 10 Indictment, 1995

Box IX 3 Folder 11 Bulgaria--General, 1992-1998

Canada

Box IX 3 Folder 12 Contacts and Organizations, 1991

Box IX 3 Folder 13 General, 1987-1995

Passion Killings

Box IX 3 Folder 14 General, 1992-1993

Box IX 3 Folder 15 Case Work, 1995

Box IX 3 Folder 16 Press Clips, 1991-1994

Women


Box IX 4 Folder 1 Refugees--Asylum Seekers--Cases, 1990-1995

[restricted until 2071]

Box IX 4 Folder 2 Status, 1991

Croatia

Box IX 4 Folder 3 Contacts, 1994-1996

Box IX 4 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1994-1998

Cyprus

Box IX 4 Folder 5 General, 1992-1994

Box IX 4 Folder 5 Women and Labor, 1983

Czechoslovakia

Box IX 4 Folder 7 General, 1991-1993

Box IX 4 Folder 8 Press Clips, 1988

Box IX 4 Folder 9 Reproductive Rights, 1991

Box IX 4 Folder 10 Czech Republic--Contacts, 1993

Denmark

Box IX 4 Folder 11 Women's Issues, 1992

Eastern Europe

Box IX 4 Folder 12 Press Clips, 1990-1993

Box IX 4 Folder 13 Women's Issues, 1990-1994

[restricted until 2070]

England

Box IX 4 Folder 14 Press Clips, 1990-1995

Box IX 4 Folder 15 Reproductive Rights, 1991

Box IX 4 Folder 16 UK--Northern Ireland--Women's Issues, 1990-1993

Europe

Box IX 4 Folder 16-17 General, 1983-1994, (2 Folders)

Box IX 4 Folder 18 European Community, 1992-1997

[restricted until 2073]

Former Yugoslavia

Bosnia

Box IX 4 Folder 19 General, 1992-1996


Box IX 5 Folder 1 Congressional Letters, 1993

Box IX 5 Folder 2 Rape, 1992-1995

Box IX 5 Folder 3 Croatia, 1992-1996

Box IX 5 Folder 4 Dayton Accord, 1995-1996

Box IX 5 Folder 5-9 Press Clips, 1992 September-1993 January, (5 Folders)


Box IX 6 Folder 1-5 Press Clips, 1993 February-May 1-15, 1993 February-May, (5 Folders)


Box IX 7 Folder 1-6 Press Clips, 1993 May 16-31-September, 1993 May, (6 Folders)


Box IX 8 Folder 1 Report: Bringing the Perpetrators of Rape in the Balkans to Justice, 1994

Box IX 8 Folder 2 Serbia, 1993-1995

Box IX 8 Folder 3 Slovenia, 1992

Box IX 8 Folder 4-5 Women's Issues, 1992-1996, (2 Folders)

Box IX 8 Folder 6 France--Women's Issues, 1989-1996

Box IX 8 Folder 7 Georgia--Human Rights Watch--Mission (1993), 1992-1993

Germany

Box IX 8 Folder 8 General, 1990-1995

Box IX 8 Folder 9 Reproductive Rights, 1990-1995

Greece

Box IX 8 Folder 10 General, 1992

Box IX 8 Folder 11 Reproductive Rights, 1991

Hungary

Box IX 8 Folder 12 Press Clips, 1988

Box IX 8 Folder 13 Reproductive Rights, 1991-1992

Box IX 8 Folder 14 Women's Issues, 1990-1992

Ireland

Box IX 8 Folder 15 Reproductive Rights, 1990-1993


Box IX 9 Folder 1 Reproductive Rights, undated

Box IX 9 Folder 2 Women's Issues, 1988-1995

Italy

Box IX 9 Folder 3 Reproductive Rights, 1991

Box IX 9 Folder 4 Women's Issues, 1993-1996

Nagorno-Karabagh

Box IX 9 Folder 5 CSCE/International Bodies, 1993-1994

Box IX 9 Folder 6 Foreign Mercenaries, 1993-1994

Box IX 9 Folder 7 Press Clips--General, 1992-1994

Box IX 9 Folder 8 Prisoners, 1993-1994

Box IX 9 Folder 9 Netherlands--Women's Issues, 1992-1993

Box IX 9 Folder 10 Norway--Women's Issues, 1991-1992

Poland

Box IX 9 Folder 11 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 1983

Box IX 9 Folder 12 Contacts and Organizations, 1992-1994

Box IX 9 Folder 13 Correspondence, 1984-1985

Box IX 9 Folder 14-19 Press Clips, 1988 January-June, (6 Folders)


Box IX 10 Folder 1-6 Press Clips, 1988 July-December, (6 Folders)

Box IX 10 Folder 7 Research, 1983

Box IX 10 Folder 8 Sekulsky, Zbigniew

Box IX 10 Folder 9 Trials--Solidarity, 1982-1983

Box IX 10 Folder 10 United Nations, 1983

Women's Issues

Box IX 10 Folder 11 General, 1991-1995

Box IX 10 Folder 12 Press Clips, 1993-1994

Box IX 10 Folder 13 Women in Post-Communist Poland--Correspondence, 1991-1993

Box IX 10 Folder 14 Reproductive Rights, 1991-1996

Box IX 10 Folder 15 Women and Family, 1992

Box IX 10 Folder 16 Women in Prison, 1991

Portugal

Box IX 10 Folder 17 Women's Issues, 1989

Romania

Box IX 10 Folder 18-19 Correspondence, 1983-1985, (2 Folders)


Box IX 11 Folder 1 Press Clips, 1988

Box IX 11 Folder 2 Bleak Reality: Human Rights in Romania, 1985 July

Box IX 11 Folder 3 Research, 1983

Box IX 11 Folder 4 Women's Issues, 1990-1995

Spain

Box IX 11 Folder 5-6 Press Clips, 1988, 1991-1994, 1988, 1991-1994, (2 Folders)

Box IX 11 Folder 7 Spain--Reproductive Rights, 1991

Box IX 11 Folder 8 Spain--Women and Labor, 1982

Sweden

Box IX 11 Folder 9 Women's Issues, 1991-1995

Switzerland

Box IX 11 Folder 10 Women's Issues, 1990-1993

Turkey

Ad Hoc Turkey Group

Box IX 11 Folder 11 Correspondence, 1992-1994

Box IX 11 Folder 12 General, 1992-1994

Box IX 11 Folder 13 Meeting, 1992 September 17

Box IX 11 Folder 14 Aircraft, 1992-1994

Box IX 11 Folder 15 Amnesty International, 1984

Box IX 11 Folder 16 Arms Project, 1992-1993

Box IX 11 Folder 17 Arrests, 1993

Box IX 11 Folder 18 Azerbaijan, 1990-1994

Box IX 11 Folder 19 Bar Association Committee, 1993

Box IX 11 Folder 20 Bosnia Refugees, 1993

Box IX 11 Folder 21 Children, 1992-1994

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)

Box IX 11 Folder 22 Briefing, 1992 May

Box IX 11 Folder 23 Meeting--Warsaw, 1993 October

Box IX 11 Folder 24 Report (1993), 1993-1994


Box IX 12 Folder 1 Common Action on Turkey (1994 February)

Box IX 12 Folder 2 Contacts and Organizations, 1995-1996

Box IX 12 Folder 3 Council of Europe, 1991-1993

Box IX 12 Folder 4-5 Cyprus, 1987-1991, 1993-1994, 1987-1991, 1993-1994, (2 Folders)

Box IX 12 Folder 6 Death Sentence (1993), 1993-1994

Box IX 12 Folder 7 Demonstrations, 1993-1994

Box IX 12 Folder 8 Detention--Death in, 1994

Disappearances

Box IX 12 Folder 9 General, 1994

Box IX 12 Folder 10 Kurdish Businessmen, 1994

Box IX 12 Folder 11 Domestic Politics, 1994

Box IX 12 Folder 12 Economy, 1994

Box IX 12 Folder 13 Editorials, 1991

Box IX 12 Folder 14 Elections, 1994

Box IX 12 Folder 15 European Convention on Human Rights, 1990-1992

Box IX 12 Folder 16 European Economic Community (EEC), 1990-1994

Box IX 12 Folder 17 European Human Rights Commission, 1987-1993

Box IX 12 Folder 18 European Parliament, 1993-1994


Box IX 13 Folder 1 Foreign Relations--Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)--Turkic Republics, 1992-1993

[restricted until 2069]

Box IX 13 Folder 2 France--Libertes, 1993

Box IX 13 Folder 3 Freedom of Assembly, 1992-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 4 Freedom of Association, 1992-1994

Freedom of Expression

Box IX 13 Folder 5 Artistic Freedom, 1992-1993

Box IX 13 Folder 6 Political Freedom, 1992-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 7 Freedom of the Press, 1992-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 8 Freedom of Speech, 1992-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 9 Gay Rights, 1993

Box IX 13 Folder 10 Germany--Turks in, 1992-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 11 Greece, 1994

Box IX 13 Folder 12 Gulf War, 1993-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 13 Gypsies, undated

Box IX 13 Folder 14 Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, 1992-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 15 House Raids--Deaths, 1992-1994

Box IX 13 Folder 16-17 Human Rights--General, 1983, 1989, 1983, 1989, (2 Folders)


Box IX 14 Folder 1 Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, 1992-1994

Human Rights Watch

Box IX 14 Folder 2 General, 1993-1994

[restricted until 2070]

Box IX 14 Folder 3 Hotel Information--Correspondence, 1988-1993

Box IX 14 Folder 4 Media--Mentions of in, 1993

Box IX 14 Folder 5 Report--Intercommunal Violence, 1994

[restricted until 2070]

Box IX 14 Folder 6 Visitors to, 1988-1992

Box IX 14 Folder 7 World Report, 1993

Box IX 14 Folder 8 Immigrants--African, 1993

Box IX 14 Folder 9 International Helsinki Federation, 1992

Iran

Box IX 14 Folder 10 Iranian Refugees, 1992-1994

Iraq

Box IX 14 Folder 11 Iraqi Refugees, 1994

Box IX 14 Folder 12 Northern Iraq, 1994

Box IX 14 Folder 13 Islamic Fundamentalism, 1993

Box IX 14 Folder 14 Japan--Japanese Aid, 1993

Box IX 14 Folder 15 Jews, 1992-1993

Box IX 14 Folder 16 Joint Resolution on Public Law 98-447, 1984 October 4

Box IX 14 Folder 17 Killings--Suspicious, 1994

[restricted until 2070]

Kurds

Box IX 14 Folder 18 General, 1984

Box IX 14 Folder 19 Abuse of Civilian Population, 1993

Box IX 14 Folder 20 Attacks Against--Villages, 1992-1994

Box IX 14 Folder 21 Children, 1993

Box IX 14 Folder 22 Clashes, 1993


Box IX 15 Folder 1 Clashes, 1993-1994

Box IX 15 Folder 2 "Common Day on Turkey" (1993 October 7), 1993-1994

Box IX 15 Folder 3 Demonstrations, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 4 Due Process, 1987

Box IX 15 Folder 5 Ethnic Identity--Destruction of Ethnic Identity, 1992-1993

Box IX 15 Folder 6 Germany--Military, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 7 International Monitors, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 8 Kurdish Human Rights Project (UK) (1992), 1992-1993

Kurdish Institute

Box IX 15 Folder 9 Belgium, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 10 France, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 11 Kurdish Life (newsletter), 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 12 Kurdish National Congress of North America, 1992-1993

Box IX 15 Folder 13 Kurdish Newroz Festival, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 14 Kurdish Organizations, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 15 North West Kurdistan Conference, 1994

Box IX 15 Folder 16 Outside Turkey--Western Europe, 1993-1994

Box IX 15 Folder 17 Parliamentary Human Rights Group (UK), November 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 18 Police Harassment, 1993

Political Parties

Box IX 15 Folder 19 General, 1993-1994

Box IX 15 Folder 20 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 21 Politicians, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 22 Press, 1993-1994

Box IX 15 Folder 23 Report: THE KURDS OF TURKEY, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 24 Shop Closings, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 25 Sirnak Raids, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 26 State of Emergency, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 27 UN Human Rights Conference, 1993

Box IX 15 Folder 28 Letters to the Editor, 1991

Box IX 15 Folder 29 Lobbying--Forms and Information, 1992

Box IX 15 Folder 30 Maps and Tourist Information, undated


Box IX 16 Folder 1 Media--Radio and Television, 1993-1994

Box IX 16 Folder 2 Minority Rights, 1993

Box IX 16 Folder 3 Olympics 2000, 1993, 2000, 1993

Box IX 16 Folder 4 People's Labour Party, 1993

Box IX 16 Folder 5 Phone Contacts, undated

[restricted until 2080]

Box IX 16 Folder 6 Physicians for Human Rights, 1990-1993

Box IX 16 Folder 7 Polat, Edip (political activist)--Grant Application--Intl. Pen, 1993

[restricted until 2069]

Press--Freedom of Expression

Box IX 16 Folder 8-10 General, 1993-1994, (3 Folders)

Box IX 16 Folder 11 The Satanic Verses, 1993

Box IX 16 Folder 12 HRW Newsletter, 1992

Box IX 16 Folder 13 HRW Report, 1993

Box IX 16 Folder 14 Imprisoned Journalists, 1993

Box IX 16 Folder 15 Kidnapped Journalists, 1993

Box IX 16 Folder 16 Killed Journalists, 1993-1994

Box IX 16 Folder 17 Newspaper Distrubutor Attacks, 1993


Box IX 17 Folder 1 Press Clips, 1988

Box IX 17 Folder 2 Protest Letters, 1989-1994

Box IX 17 Folder 3 Provincial Administration Draft Law, 1993

Box IX 17 Folder 4 Public Relations (PR) Firms, 1988-1992

Box IX 17 Folder 5 Refugees, 1996-1997

Report: Broken Promises, 1993

Box IX 17 Folder 6 Press Releases, 1992-1993

Box IX 17 Folder 7-8 Research Materials, 1992, (2 Folders)

Box IX 17 Folder 9 Research Notes, 1992 August

Box IX 17 Folder 10 Research Trip (1992 August), 1991-1992

[restricted until 2068]

Box IX 17 Folder 11 Torture, 1992

Box IX 17 Folder 12 Russia--Foreign Relations, 1994


Box IX 18 Folder 1 Security Investigation Regulation, 1987-1991

Box IX 18 Folder 2 Semdinli Battle, 1992 September 30

Box IX 18 Folder 3 Sivas Incident, 1993 July

Box IX 18 Folder 4 Solidarity Association of Prisoners' Relatives (TAYAD), 1990-1991

Box IX 18 Folder 5 State of Emergency, 1988-1993

Box IX 18 Folder 6 Trials and Arrests, 1993-1994

Box IX 18 Folder 7 Turkish Embassy, Washington, DC, 1993-1994

Box IX 18 Folder 8 Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD), 1993

Box IX 18 Folder 9 UN Human Rights Committee, 1991

United States

Box IX 18 Folder 10 National Security Council, 1994

Box IX 18 Folder 11 Turks in, 1989

Box IX 18 Folder 12 U.S. Congressional File, 1983-1984

Box IX 18 Folder 13 University, 1993

Western Europe

Box IX 18 Folder 14 Influence of, 1993-1994

Box IX 18 Folder 15 Western Europe--Refugees, 1994

Women's Issues

Box IX 18 Folder 16 Caseworks, 1995-1996

Box IX 18 Folder 17 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, 1995 January 14

Box IX 18 Folder 18 Rape and Torture, 1991-1996

Box IX 18 Folder 19 Women and Law, 1992

Box IX 18 Folder 20 Women in Prison, 1991

Box IX 18 Folder 21 Women's Labor, 1989-1995


Box IX 19 Folder 1 Women's Movement, 1991-1998

Box IX 19 Folder 2 Women's Rights, 1989-1994

United States

Human Rights--U.S. Congress

Box IX 19 Folder 3 General, 1991-1993

Box IX 19 Folder 4 Hearings, 1992

Box IX 19 Folder 5 Legislative Action, 1990-1996

Box IX 19 Folder 6 Native Americans, 1992

Box IX 19 Folder 7 Rape Overview, 1990-1997

U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ)

Box IX 19 Folder 8 Civil Protection Orders, 1989

Box IX 19 Folder 9 Violence Against Women, 1994-1995

Box IX 19 Folder 10 Women's Issues, 1988-1994

Box IX 19 Folder 11 U.S. Dept. of Labor: Women's Bureau, 1989-1990

Women's Issues


Box IX 20 Folder 1 General, 1989-1996

Box IX 20 Folder 2 Anita Hill Hearings (sexual harassment), 1991

Box IX 20 Folder 3 Caseworks, 1994

Box IX 20 Folder 4-5 Domestic Violence, 1987-1992, 1994-1997, 1987-1992, 1994-1997, (2 Folders)

Box IX 20 Folder 6 Reproductive Rights, 1996

Box IX 20 Folder 7 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 1996

Box IX 20 Folder 8 Women and Asylum, 1992-1996

Box IX 20 Folder 9 Women and Education, 1992-1995

Box IX 20 Folder 10 Women and Labor, 1991-1996

USSR


Box IX 21 Folder 1 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) – "Near Abroad" Policy, 1994

Box IX 21 Folder 2 Contacts and Organizations, 1992-1997

Box IX 21 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1992-1997

Box IX 21 Folder 4 Foreign Relations--Turkey, 1992-1994

Box IX 21 Folder 5 Forensics, 1978-1979

Box IX 21 Folder 6 General Background, 1991-1997

Box IX 21 Folder 7 Housing, 1991-1997

Box IX 21 Folder 8 Islamic Fundamentalism, 1992-1993

Laws


Box IX 22 Folder 1 General, 1993-1997

Box IX 22 Folder 2 Law Research, 1993-1996

Box IX 22 Folder 3 New Independent States, 1992

Press Clips

Box IX 22 Folder 4-7 General, 1988 January-Apri), 1988, (4 Folders)


Box IX 23 Folder 1-5 General, 1988 May-June, (5 Folders)


Box IX 24 Folder 1-5 General, 1988 July-October , 1988, 1988 July-October, 1988, (5 Folders)


Box IX 25 Folder 1-4 General, 1988 November-December, (4 Folders)

Box IX 25 Folder 5 Refugees, 1994

Box IX 25 Folder 6 Russian Constitutional Crisis (1993), 1993-1994

Box IX 25 Folder 7 Russian Federation--THE REGIONS, 1992-1994


Box IX 26 Folder 1 Soviet Republics, 1991-1995

Box IX 26 Folder 2 Tajikistan--Military, 1993

Women's Issues

Box IX 26 Folder 3 Press Clips, 1990-1997

Box IX 26 Folder 4 Reproductive Rights, 1991

Uzebekistan

Box IX 26 Folder 5 Women's Issues, undated

Helsinki Watch

Box IX 26 Folder 6 Annual Reports, 1981-1982

Box IX 26 Folder 7 Conference: "The Role of Women and the Transition to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe", 1992 October 3-4, 1992 October

Contacts

Box IX 26 Folder 8 Europe, 1992 August 3

[restricted until 2068]

Box IX 26 Folder 9 Organizations, undated.

[restricted until 2080]

Box IX 26 Folder 10 Correspondence, 1993-1994

Box IX 26 Folder 11 Europe--CSCE Hearings, 1985

Box IX 26 Folder 12 Media--Mentions of in, 1988

Box IX 26 Folder 13-15 Press Clips--General, 1988, 1992-1995, 1988, 1992-1995, (3 Folders)

Box IX 26 Folder 16 Testimony--House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations (1984 May 15), 1983-1984