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Contains clippings, press releases including urgent actions, correspondence, newsletters, meeting notes, reports, and other assorted material from WOLA. Topics include the 1989 democratic elections in Chile, the first since the 1973 coup, and with information on different political parties; the assassination of Orlando Letelier and his assistant, Ronnie Moffitt, and international efforts to bring their killers to justice; human rights abuses during the Pinochet regime, including a three-volume report issued by the Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and efforts by human rights groups to bring Pinochet to trial in the 1990s-2000s.

Contains newsletters, press releases, articles, memos, correspondence, contact lists, other general office files related to WOLA staff activities. Topics include WOLA publications on Uruguay democracy, elections, observation trips, and urgent actions.

Includes correspondence, drafts, hill drops, meeting notes, clippings, reports, and other assorted materials related to WOLA's work on Nicaragua. Topics include efforts to influence US policy on Nicaragua through different presidential administrations, funding, US-Nicaragua relations including the role of the CIA in the Contra War, economic issues, and other more general issues. Additional files referencing the Contra War can be found in the files for Costa Rica and Honduras.

Includes reports, drafts, memos, correspondence, lists, conference materials and other assorted materials related to WOLA staff activities on Guatemala. Topics include various talks, brown bags, and other speaking engagements about Guatemala, visits from activists, human rights workers, and others concerning Guatemala, advocacy work including to Congress and other parties; trips and delegations to the country; and others that reference the political and human rights situation.

Contains administrative planning documents, internal correspondence and memoranda, articles by WOLA staff, conference materials, newsletters, articles, reprints, and other documents relating to WOLA's work on drug policy. WOLA staff featured include Charles Call, Eileen Rosin, John Walsh, Coletta Youngers.

Includes clippings and photocopies of such, contact lists, correspondence, notes, reprints of published articles, memos, reports, and other assorted materials related to WOLA's activities pertaining to Haiti. Topics include sign-ons, trips to Haiti, events such as talks put on by WOLA staff, and a Haiti working group.

Contains correspondence, reports and hill drops (information relevant to pending legislation aimed at Congress and other officials), conference materials, drafts, press releases, and other assorted materials. Material focuses on WOLA's efforts to shape policy in the United States, delegations, conferences and programs, working groups and other committees.

Contains correspondence, articles, drafts, reports, conference files, newsletters, publications, and other assorted materials. Subjects include the 1994 WOLA conference on police reform in Central America and Haiti, the Manual for Civil Society, Citizen Security Monitor, and other security topics related to arms transfer, human rights, and police.

Contains administrative files, contact lists, conference materials, working group files, correspondence, reprints, and other assorted materials related to WOLA staff activities for Mexico. Topics include delegations to Mexico; WOLA's role as a co-coordinator of roundtables on Mexico in 1994-1995 on Chiapas, drug trafficking, and the process of democratic reform; events and other talks about human rights in Mexico led by WOLA staff.