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• Women’s protests against mining get noticed in parliament

  By Patrick Daniels on March 18, 2010 • ( 0 )

  In a recent question asked to mark International Women’s Day in the House of Lords Guatemala was mentioned a couple of times. Baroness Thomas of Walliswood commented that it seemed to her that women are often more willing than men… Read More ›

• Another leader of FRENA has been murdered

  By Patrick Daniels on February 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Yet another director of the organisation FRENA (the Front for Resistance in Defence of Natural Resources and the Rights of the People) was murdered in San Marcos this week. According to a communiqué by the group URNG-MAIZ, Octavio Roblero was… Read More ›

• And now for something completely different…

  By Patrick Daniels on February 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  The BBC is currently running a series of short programmes entitled ” A History of the World in 100 Objects”, which charts human development through artefacts to be found in the British Museum. The development of agriculture is unquestionably a… Read More ›

• Supreme Court reactivates Dos Erres case – action at last

  By Patrick Daniels on February 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  As we reported on 7 January the state of Guatemala was found to have so obstructed the progress of the case against those accused of the Dos Erres massacre that it constituted a denial of the right to justice. Following… Read More ›

• Tensions in San Marcos

  By Patrick Daniels on January 23, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Wednesday 13th January saw the second murder in three months of a leader in the campaign for the nationalisation of electricity provision in the department of San Marcos. The murder comes following recent heightened tensions in the department, which culminated… Read More ›

• Forwarded message: Screening of “Which Way Home” at Frontline Club, Paddington, 24th January

  By Patrick Daniels on January 23, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Which Way Home The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call “ The Beast ”. Director Rebecca Cammisa (Sister Helen) tracks the stories of children… Read More ›

• Forwarded message: Seeking letters of recommendation for human rights defender Jesus Tecu

  By Patrick Daniels on January 20, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Forwarded message from Kathy Dill: I am seeking letters of recommendation for human rights defender Jesus Tecú Osorio, whom I am nominating for the Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award. I am nominating him as an individual and speaking… Read More ›

• SITRAPETEN eviction on NISGUA website

  By Patrick Daniels on January 10, 2010 • ( 0 )

  An urgent action has been posted on US organisation, NISGUA’s, website concerning the violent eviction of trade unionists from the central square in Guatemala City last month. For our post on the eviction (which includes links for further information) click… Read More ›

• Interamerican Court finds against Guatemala in Dos Erres Case

  By Patrick Daniels on January 7, 2010 • ( 0 )

  After fifteen years of waiting for justice to be done in Guatemala the survivors and relatives of victims of the Dos Erres massacre have however received a favourable verdict elsewhere: the Interamerican Court of Human Rights found the state of… Read More ›

• Violent eviction of trade unionists of SITRAPETEN from Parque Central

  By Patrick Daniels on December 30, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On the 10th – which happens to be International Human Rights Day – and 11th December members of the trade union SITRAPETÉN were violently evicted by the National Civil Police (PNC) from the makeshift huts in which they had for… Read More ›