CIS Microfiche Library 1970-2002 (CIS Asia Pacific Collection)

 CIS NO: 81-H381-57
 TITLE: Human Rights in Asia: Communist Countries.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iv+190 p.
 DATE: Oct. 1, 1980
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 96-2              SUDOC: Y4.F76/1:H88/16
 ITEM NO: 1017
 LC CARD NO: 81-601383               MC ENTRY NO: 81-7288

 Hearing before the Subcom on Asian and Pacific Affairs and the Subcom on
 International Organizations to assess the human rights situation in People's
 Republic of China (PRC), North Korea, Kampuchea, and Vietnam.
   Includes submitted statements, correspondence, and articles (p. 2-5,
 155-190).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in China, North Korea, Kampuchea, and
     Vietnam
 DESCRIPTORS: SUBCOM ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS. HOUSE; SUBCOM ON HUMAN
     RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. HOUSE; CIVIL LIBERTIES;
     FOREIGN.RELATIONS; CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC; KOREA, NORTH;
     KAMPUCHEA; VIETNAM

 81-H381-57 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Oct. 1, 1980 p. 7-59
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     DERIAN, PATRICIA M. (Asst Sec, Human Rights and Humanitarian Aff,
        State Dept)
     NEGROPONTE, JOHN D. (Dep Asst Sec, East Asian and Pacific Aff)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Briefing on human rights violations in PRC,
     North Korea, Vietnam, and Kampuchea; inadequacy of information on
     repression in Communist Asia; description of U.S. and UN Commission on
     Human Rights efforts to improve human rights conditions in Asian
     Communist countries (resolutions, p. 11-14); defense of U.S. support for
     Pol Pot regime accreditation as UN representative from Kampuchea.
 INSERTION: 
     -- State Dept, political and economic repression in Kampuchea,
        1975-80, US rpt prepared for UN (p. 15-23).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in China, North Korea, Kampuchea, and
     Vietnam
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE;
     GOVERNMENT.INFORMATION.AND.INFORMATION.SERVICES (Human rights
     violations in Communist Asia, info inadequacy); UNITED NATIONS
     (Kampuchea UN membership, Pol Pot regime accreditation); POL POT
     (Kampuchea UN membership, Pol Pot regime accreditation); UNITED NATIONS
     COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

 81-H381-57 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Oct. 1, 1980 p. 59-76
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     FARER, THOMAS J. (prof, Rutgers Law School; pres, Inter-Amer
        Commission on Human Rights)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Refutation of U.S. arguments supporting Pol Pot
     regime accreditation as UN representative for Kampuchea; examples of
     foreign military intervention in other countries for humanitarian
     considerations.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in Kampuchea
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): UNITED NATIONS (Kampuchea UN
     membership, Pol Pot regime accreditation); POL POT (Kampuchea UN
     membership, Pol Pot regime accreditation); WAR (Military intervention
     for humanitarian considerations, examples)

 81-H381-57 TESTIMONY NO: 3         Oct. 1, 1980 p. 77-153
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     KIM, ROY U. (assoc political science prof, Drexel Univ; research
        fellow, Foreign Policy Research Inst)
     DREYER, JUNE T. (dir, East Asian programs, Center for Advanced Intl
        Studies; prof, dept of politics and pub aff, Univ of Miami)
     SEYMOUR, JAMES D. (East Asian studies prof, dept of govt, NY Univ;
        pres, Soc for the Protection of East Asians' Human Rights)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Difference between U.S. and PRC-North Korean
     view of human rights; criticism of U.S. human rights report on North
     Korea; success of North Korean provision of citizens' economic
     necessities.
       Status of North Korean and PRC human and economic rights; description
     of PRC political rights violations; diverse views on U.S. policy toward
     PRC and North Korean human rights violations.
 INSERTION: 
     -- Dreyer, J. T., "Limits of the Permissible in China" Problems of
        Communism, Nov.-Dec. 1980 (p. 102-116).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in China and North Korea