Historically, in Guatemala, the condition of female indigenous campesinas has many dimensions of exclusion: through being a woman, through our class, through being poor, and th...
As multinational companies continue to seek licences for mineral exploitation in Guatemala, time and again local communities reject these initiatives in popular consultas comunitarias. Not only do ...
Peace Brigades International have organised a visit to London of the Mexican human rights defender Tita Radilla. She is the vice-president of the Mexican Association of Relatives of the Detained, ...
URGENT ACTION from ACOGUATE: A break-down in negotiations and a series of illegal eviction/removal attempts in the dispute between Guatemalan Nickel Company and neighbouring communities has led...
We've just received the following message from Kathy Dill - more info in taking part in this urgent action. On the afternoon of September 14th, 2009, human rights defender Jesus Tecú Osorio rec...
LAMMP (Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme), a member group of London Mining Network, is hosting a public meeting on Tuesday 13th October with rural and indigenous women activists from Latin...
On the 31st August, 2009, former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero Coj was sentenced to 150 years of prison for the forced disappearance of six members of the community of Choatalum in the depa...
Raul Figueroa Sarti is a well known, and well respected, human rights-focused publisher in Guatemala. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of F&G Editores. Its publications examine sensitive...
It's exciting being here in Guatemala when there are advances in the trials we follow. Last week some great news came out about the case of forced disappearance in the village of Choatalum, the onl...
The Interamerican Commission on Human Rights recently concluded a visit to Guatemala. As one of the American bodies charged with oversight of the respect for human rights it periodically visits me...
The recent political turmoil in the UK had many casualties, one of whom was Michael Martin, the speaker of the House who was forced out of office, the first time this has happened in more than 300...
Something made me check out the Al Jazeera website and I saw this little video. “During Guatemala's 36-year civil war in which at least 200,000 people died, victims of the government's death squa...
Last Sunday, among the now routine roll-call of violent death in Guatemala appeared one name for whom the grave would not be silent. “Good Afternoon, my name is Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano… sadly if ...
We have just received news from ACOGUATE of death threats and attacks suffered by staff of two human rights organizations in Guatemala, SEDEM and UDEFEGUA, in the last number of days. The messages ...
You may remember that GSN held a speaker tour last year on the theme of gender violence, titled Beyond Violence, and we had the good fortune to have Iduvina Hernández as our guest from Guatemala. I...
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