Scientists and Human Rights in Chile: Report of a Delegation (1985)

Summary: This report presents information gathered by the members of a delegation that was sent to Chile by the Committee on Human Rights in March 1985. The delegation had three major objectives: (1) to meet with government and university officials, members of the scientific and legal communities, representatives of scientific, medical, and human rights organizations, and victims of human rights abuses to discuss the concerns of the members of the Committee on Human Rights and the U.S. scientific community regarding reports of human rights abuses affecting scientists, engineers, and health professionals; (2) to gather information on the status of colleagues reportedly banished to internal exile or recently dismissed from their jobs; and (3) to obtain information on the whereabouts and legal status of scientists and health professionals who reportedly had been imprisoned or disappeared since 1973.