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• Plan Sofia 82 is handed over

  By Patrick Daniels on December 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Translated from the Prensa Libre article by Olga López Ovando. The handing over of Plan Sofia in Guatemala earlier this month came shortly after expert testimonies in the genocide case were heard in Madrid by Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz. For more… Read More ›

• Universal Jurisdiction in the UK – why it matters

  By Patrick Daniels on December 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On the dome of the Old Bailey, England’s Central Criminal Court, stands the statue of Justice, with her sword and scales, above an inscription which exhorts us to “Defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer.” There is… Read More ›

• Historic first sentence against former member of Guatemalan military for crime of forced disappearance

  By Patrick Daniels on December 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On the evening of Thursday 3rd December, a court in Chiquimula made history by sentencing former army colonel Marco Antonio Sánchez Samayoa and three former military commissioners, José Domingo Ríos, Gabriel Álvarez Ramos and Salomón Maldonado Ríos to 40 years… Read More ›

• Awaiting sentence in forced disappearance case

  By Patrick Daniels on December 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

   It is anticipated that the judges’ verdict will be delivered in the very near future in the case of El Jute – the case of the forced disappearance of eight inhabitants of the rural community of the same name in… Read More ›

• Protest the murder of Fausto Leonel Otzín Poyón

  By Patrick Daniels on November 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Fausto Otzín was an indigenous human rights lawyer, and in his short and now truncated life had dedicated himself to seeking justice. He was found dumped in a ditch on October 18 this year having suffered multiple wounds and died… Read More ›

• Peace Brigades International Film Screening and AGM

  By Patrick Daniels on November 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  For those of you interested in accompaniment in Latin America you might be interested in PBI‘s forthcoming AGM at which they’ll be showing a film about their work in Colombia. The screening of the 15th anniversary film produced by the… Read More ›

• Video: Interview with Yuri Melini, Environmental Activist

  By Patrick Daniels on November 27, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Yuri Melini, Director of CALAS, is an environmental campaigner for many years in Guatemala. Here in this film by Nicolas Bergeron about when he suffered an attempt on his life. Video is in Spanish with French subtitles.  

• Guatemalan communities reject mining in local territory

  By Patrick Daniels on November 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  As multinational companies continue to seek licences for mineral exploitation in Guatemala, time and again local communities reject these initiatives in popular consultas comunitarias. Not only do they site the environmental damage that will be done to their lands, and the lack… Read More ›

• Mexican Human Rights Defender in London

  By Patrick Daniels on October 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International have organised a visit to London of the Mexican human rights defender Tita Radilla. She is the vice-president of the Mexican Association of Relatives of the Detained, Disappeared and Victims of Human Rights Violations (AFADEM). Her visit… Read More ›

• Urgent Action: Children of Human Right’s Defender Threatened

  By Patrick Daniels on September 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  We’ve just received the following message from Kathy Dill – more info in taking part in this urgent action. On the afternoon of September 14th, 2009, human rights defender Jesus Tecú Osorio received a telephone call on his personal cell… Read More ›