URGENT ACTION : GUATEMALA: State must immediately stop the excessive violence against defenders of the Maya Q'eqchi' people in peaceful resistance against the illegal nickel project in El Estor. After twenty days of peaceful resistance against the illegal mining of their ancestral territories and the Guatemalan State's failure to enforce [...]
By: Este Chep, BTS Interim Guatemala Coordinator and Stacey Gomez, BTS Maritimes Coordinator September 15th marks Independence Day in Guatemala. This year marks 199 years since the transfer of power from the Spanish Crown to the European elites and their descendants in Guatemala. Many Indigenous people and organizations in [...]
Report back for Guatemala Coordinator Lisa Rankin From October 25-28, I had the opportunity to accompany the Nobel Women’s Initiative during the Guatemala leg of their tour to Central America. The Nobel laureates and delegation members first travelled to Honduras, where they met with human rights organizations and government officials. [...]
REFUTAMOS LAS DECLARACIONES DEL MINISTRO DE GOBERNACIÓN 1. En un planteamiento ante empresarios, el Ministro de Gobernación afirmó que la participación de organizaciones de derechos humanos en las audiencias de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), "no es más que un chantaje y una extorsión como la de los [...]
