On October 26, the Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (LAMMP), a London-based NGO, hosted the Beyond Good Business conference aimed at advocating women’s rights in the context of natural resource extraction. The all-day event brought together an array of global… Read More ›
On 18 September 2015, one day after the Reforestadora Palma de Petén S.A. (REPSA) palm oil factory was ordered closed for its contamination of the Pasíon River, an indigenous activist, Rigoberto Lima Choc, 28, was murdered outside a courthouse in… Read More ›
Former President Otto Pérez Molina poses with Escobal mine workers. Photo: Tahoe Resources This article was written and published by NISGUA, in collaboration with MiningWatch Canada and the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network. If the militarized security strategy that Tahoe Resources has used… Read More ›
Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) have announced that this year’s Alice Zachmann Human Rights Award will be presented to the community media group Prensa Comunitaria (Community Press). GHRC selected Prensa Comunitaria for its commitment to grassroots journalism and its focus… Read More ›
The latest edition of El Quetzal, the newsletter from Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) is now available. The focus, of course, is on the unfolding events that led to the resignation and arrest of President Otto Pérez Molina and the… Read More ›
In the first six months of 2015 alone, there were 59 documented attacks against journalists in Guatemala, according to a report released last week by the Observatory for Journalists of the Center for Informative Reports about Guatemala (CERIGUA for its… Read More ›
“During Guatemala’s internal armed conflict (1960-1996) almost 200,000 people are thought to have been killed or ‘disappeared’ at the hands of repressive and violent regimes. Those lives matter. Their families’ demands are clear: they want to know what happened to… Read More ›
“For over 30 years, members of the Cuevas family have been campaigning for justice for our son and brother Carlos, disappeared in 1984, and our sister-in-law Rosario Godoy de Cuevas and their family, abducted and murdered at the hands of… Read More ›
Guatemala Human Rights Commission’s (GHRC) Winter 2014-2015 issue of El Quetzal highlights continued challenges regarding the defence of land rights and provides updates from a slew of important human rights cases. The issue also includes a report from their autumn… Read More ›
Latest from the Tahoe on Trial website is an exhortation to North American shareholders in Tahoe Resources to follow Norway’s Council on Ethics’ lead and divest. Canadian and U.S. investors are urged to make use of a report published last… Read More ›
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