Urgent Actions
TAKE ACTION: Tell Canadian Authorities to Call on New Guatemalan AG to Review, Resolve and Provide Reparations for Criminalization Cases
New Attorney General and Head of Public Prosecutor's Office, Gabriel García Luna Context As of May 2026, Guatemala has a new Attorney General (AG), Gabriel García Luna, ending Consuelo Porras's tenure at the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP). Under [...]
TAKE ACTION: Email officials to demand release of CCDA’s Leocadio Juracán
On August 13, Leocadio Juracán, Agrarian Reform Coordinator of the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA), was detained at La Aurora Airport as he was leaving the country to participate in a Translocal Social Movement Learning conference in South Africa. [...]
TAKE ACTION: Call Canadian Government to Act in Support of Indigenous Communities and Guatemalan Democracy
TAKE ACTION: Call Canadian Government to Act in Support of Indigenous Communities and Guatemalan Democracy Last week, the BTS community learned about the devastating murder of Noé Gómez Barrera, Xinka ancestral authority and community leader. We ask you to stand [...]
TAKE ACTION: Stand with Guatemalan Protestors Protecting Democracy
This action was updated on December 10 to reflect worsening attacks on Guatemalan democracy, after the Public Prosecutor's office (MP) held a press conference threatening to annul election results, an act which the Organisation of American States (OAS) called "an [...]
We denounce violence against Q’eqchi communities in Guatemala
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 [...]
Amidst a spike in violence 3,900+ sign petition demanding Pan American Silver respect the Xinka Peoples’ rights to free and prior consent
Dear Pan American Silver, When you purchased the Escobal mine in 2019, you knew about the broad opposition to the project and that there had been violent repression against those involved in the fight. Now, your refusal to halt local [...]