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  • Impact of mining projects on women

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  • URGENT ACTION: COMMUNITY LEADER KILLED BY PRIVATE SECURITY AGENTS

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    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 to an attack by armed groups, among them security agents of the company,… Read More ›

  • Recent killings linked to Canadian-owned nickel mine in Guatemala

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    Dawn Paley writes in The Dominion that two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel mine in Guatemala. This article appeared on Upside Down World. The first… Read More ›

  • An injustice and abuse of the law

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    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 and important human rights issues that are not frequently covered in… Read More ›

  • Caja Lúdica

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    Guatemala’s murder rate is ten times the world average. The harsh streets of Guatemala City are packed with drugs, gangs and guns. Caja Lúdica is a youth arts collective, using arts and carnival activities to promote a culture of peace… Read More ›

  • Guatemala begins to identify civil war victims

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    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 squads were buried in unmarked graves.  Now they are… Read More ›

  • An indictment from the grave.

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    A murder foretold has convulsed Guatemala’s government. Its investigation will provide a test of whether or not Central America includes a failed state.  So begins this article in The Economist. It’s interesting that the article states ‘the murder rate (of nearly 50… Read More ›

  • Attacks on Human Rights Workers

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    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 were personal and referred to the work… Read More ›

  • Days of Papering

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      This is from a new photomontage from James Rodríguez and MiMundo. Next month, it will be 10 years since HIJOS Guatemala began their struggle in search of memory, truth and justice with reference to crimes against humanity committed by… Read More ›

  • Congress approves Arms Law

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    Although the right to bear firearms is enshrined in the Guatemalan constitution, it is also a right that the Peace Accords agreed to limit. But over the past 12 years it has been impossible to approve a law to limit,… Read More ›