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• NISGUA – December Solidarity Update

  By kevodell on December 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  NISGUA recently shared their Solidarity Update for December. Maya Achi survivors present a formal complaint against Judge Claudette Domínguez On December 5, 36 Maya Achi survivors of sexual violence presented a formal complaint against Judge Claudette Domínguez for acts of… Read More ›

• Guatemala – CICIG’s Legacy

  By kevodell on December 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) have done a series of short reports looking at Trends of the Decade. Guatemala features in various themes, but I thought to concentrate on the Fight Against Corruption and CICIG’s legacy. Since 2007, Guatemala’s… Read More ›

• Safe Third Country?

  By kevodell on December 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In November, a 23-year-old Honduran man became the first asylum seeker to be sent from the US to Guatemala under the “Safe Third Country” deal. Since then, it appears that up to two dozen asylum seekers have been flown to Guatemala. Two… Read More ›

• 2019 – a year of violence

  By kevodell on December 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  UDEFEGUA has just reported on the number of personal attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala this year, up to the middle of December. From the infographic, above, it reports that this year was the fourth most violent year out… Read More ›

• The cold cases of Guatemala’s civil war were impossible to identify—until now

  By kevodell on December 21, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Decades after 45,000 people vanished in Guatemala, an anonymous skeleton finally gets a name. Nina Strochlic writes in the National Geographic For 14 years, a human skeleton known as 317-38-10 sat in a cardboard box stored in a metal shipping… Read More ›

• PBI – Indigenous land defenders criminalized for opposing open-pit mine, dam

  By kevodell on December 21, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Brent Patterson, of PBI Canada writes, On December 20, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Today we have accompanied the Law Office of Human Rights to Puerto Barrios at the initial debate hearing of Eduardo Bin Poou, Q’eqchi’ defender and… Read More ›

• Central American mine resistance visits Vancouver

  By kevodell on December 21, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Hayley Woodin writes on BIV’s resources and agriculture website. It was the first advocacy effort of its kind in a mining conflict that has spanned a decade, three countries and multiple legal challenges. In November, a representative of Guatemala’s Indigenous… Read More ›

• Another Senior Military Official Indicted on Genocide Charges in Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  By Jo-Marie Burt and Paolo Estrada for International Justice Monitor Last week, a Guatemalan court indicted another senior military official accused of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya Ixil population. The official, retired army general Luis Enrique Mendoza… Read More ›

• Court Indicts Senior Military Officials for Genocide

  By kevodell on November 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  By Jo-Marie Burt and Paolo Estrada for International Justice Monitor. On Monday,(25th Nov), Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez of High Risk Court “B” ruled to approve the indictment involving charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against three members of the… Read More ›

• Joint Declaration on the Guatemala Police Archive

  By kevodell on November 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  This post from the National Security Archive (NSA) website, by Kate Doyle with Megan DeTura. ‘The Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala (AHPN) is in trouble. This unparalleled collection of Guatemalan police records, renowned throughout the hemisphere and… Read More ›