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• Ex-PAC members accused of sexual violence against Achi women will face justice in 2022

  By kevodell on March 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Lourdes Álvarez Nájera has written in Prensa Comunitaria about the legal moves to bring ex-PAC members to court for crimes of sexual violence during the early 1980s. In January of next year, the trial will begin against three former members… Read More ›

• Dianna Ortiz Memorial

  By kevodell on March 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) posted a Memorial page to Dianna Ortiz, OSU, who died on February 19, 2021, at 62 years old. She fought for the rights of all and fought bravely. Dianna worked at the Guatemala Human… Read More ›

• Interview with wrongfully imprisoned Maya Q’eqchi river defender Bernardo Caal Xol

  By kevodell on March 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted a video of its Acércate (‘come closer’) interview with Maya Q’eqchi river defender Bernardo Caal Xol in prison in Cobán, Alta Verapaz. Caal Xol is a leader of the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón, a collective… Read More ›

• World Water Day – It Is Time To Free Bernardo Caal Xol

  By kevodell on March 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Yesterday, 22nd March, was World Water Day, and we wanted to bring attention to the case of Bernardo Caal Xol, who has been unjustly detained for three years now. Since 2015, Bernardo Caal has defended the rights of the communities… Read More ›

• Women Weavers: To Outsiders We’re Exotic; In Guatemala We’re the “Marías”

  By kevodell on March 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  An article by Kimberly Rocío López, has been translated into English and published in El Faro, outlining the struggle for recognition of, and respect for the craft of, women textile weavers in Guatemala. The original article is in Spanish and… Read More ›

• A Guatemalan Judge under Siege

  By kevodell on March 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Elsa Coronado has written, in Plaza Pública, about the challenges facing Judge Erika Aifán in her work against corruption. An English version, translated by Max Granger, appears in the El Faro English site. Judge Erika Aifán may not be as… Read More ›

• Statement of ABA President Patricia Lee Refo Re: Appointment of magistrates in Guatemala

  By kevodell on March 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The American Bar Association has put out a statement voicing their concerns regarding the appointment of magistrates to the Constitutional Court. WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 – The American Bar Association is deeply concerned by media accounts and reports from human… Read More ›

• Very High Stakes – Elections to the Constitutional Court

  By kevodell on March 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  By the 23rd March, the five individuals who will serve the next 5-year term on the Guatemala Constitutional Court must be named in order to be sworn in and to take office on the 14th April. This is the date… Read More ›

• Civil Society demands judicial investigation of members of the Supreme Court

  By kevodell on March 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  More than 40 organisations and social platforms demand of the Attorney General, María Consuelo Porras, that she applies for the withdrawal of immunity of Néster Vásquez, and the other magistrates of the Supreme Court, implicated in the ‘Parallel Commissions 2020’… Read More ›

• #NosDuelen56 – The Hogar Seguro fire, four years on

  By kevodell on March 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  March 8th, as well as being International Women’s Day, is also the anniversary of the death of 41 young women and girls, in 2017, in the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, (Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home) in San… Read More ›