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• Guatemala Congress Ignores Integrity and Transparency

  By kevodell on January 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Congress, no friend of integrity, transparency nor the rule of law, has again chosen to ignore a ruling of the Constitutional Court in swearing in a new justice to that same Court. The Guatemalan Bar and Notaries Association… Read More ›

• Guatemala – #NiUnaMenos

  By kevodell on January 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday, 22nd January, it was reported that five women were murdered in Guatemala. Incredibly, this brings to 28, the number for January, and nothing is being done by the State to address this. Outrage has been expressed across twitter in… Read More ›

• No Human Being Is Illegal

  By kevodell on January 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Convergencia por los Derechos Humanos (The Human Rights ‘Meeting Point’) issued a statement, published by UDEFEGUA, on the 21st January in relation to the violence meted out to the Honduran migrants over the previous weekend. Any errors in translation… Read More ›

• Guatemalan forces disperse migrant caravan

  By kevodell on January 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Historic elite-level corruption in Honduras, narc-trafficking, and brutal internal violence, much of it state-sponsored, as well as the effects of climate change, especially as witnessed by the successive hurricanes that battered the country, Eta and Iota, within the unprecedented situation… Read More ›

• PBI-Guatemala visits the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya

  By kevodell on January 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Brent Patterson writes in the PBI-Canada website about a recent visit to La Puya – ‘La Comunidad en Resistencia’ – as part of their accompaniment of the community fighting against the corrupt imposition of a gold mine on their territory,… Read More ›

• Guatemalan families mourn death of children as hunger spreads

  By kevodell on January 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Government data show acute malnutrition among the under-fives rose by 80% in Guatemala in 2020 compared to 2019. Sofía Menchú writes in Reuters website about a particular tragedy which is a recurring scandal in Guatemala – a country with very… Read More ›

• PBI-Guatemala accompanies BDH law firm at hearing on the Hogar Seguro shelter fire

  By kevodell on January 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Brent Patterson has written in the PBI website about the accompaniment carried out by PBI with the Human Rights law firm, BDH, at the hearing on the Hogar Seguro shelter fire. In February 2019, 12 people were detained on charges… Read More ›

• Guatemala mine’s ex-security chief convicted of Indigenous leader’s murder

  By kevodell on January 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Cuffe writes in The Guardian about the guilty plea related to the killing of Adolfo Choc in 2009. A judge in Guatemala has accepted a guilty plea by the former head of security at Central America’s largest nickel mine… Read More ›

• ‘We demand the investigation and criminal punishment for the human rights’ violations committed on 21st November 2020’

  By kevodell on January 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  UDEFEGUA recently released a demand for justice against those responsible for the acts of violence carried out against peaceful demonstrators on the 21st November 2020. Any errors in translation are mine. The Protection Unit for Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala… Read More ›

• For Indigenous Reporters, Covering Protests, Land Disputes Can Lead to Arrest

  By kevodell on December 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Dalia Faheid writes on VOA News about some of the challenges facing indigenous journalists covering land disputes. For nearly three months Anastasia Mejía, a radio journalist and a member of the Maya K’iche’ indigenous group in Guatemala, has been under… Read More ›