Noor Mahtani writes in El País, as part of their Planeta Futuro series, about the scourge of hunger among Indigenous children and the Government’s unwillingness to do anything that might change the future prospects of poor Guatemalans. Any errors in… Read More ›
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10th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: challenges for their implementation in Guatemala
“The person who defends Mother Earth is unjustly accused and condemned, without evidence“ PBI-Guatemala recently published a feature on the challenges of implementing, in Guatemala, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were endorsed by the United Nations… Read More ›
Indigenous community takes Guatemalan land rights fight to international court
Sandra Cuffe write in Mongabay about a community in north east Guatemala, Agua Caliente Lote 9, which is taking a case, against the Guatemala State, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The case relates to land rights and, if… Read More ›
Decades After Guatemala’s Silent Holocaust, These Indigenous Women Are Fighting to Bring Their Rapists to Justice
Eloise Barry writes in TIME on the fight for justice carried out by the Maya Achi women culminating in five ex-PAC members each being convicted and sentenced to 30 years. The pain endured over the years by the surviving women… Read More ›
25 Years After the Peace Accords, Democracy Weak in Guatemala
In Guatemala, safeguards against corruption, impunity, and state violence are being dismantled by the politicians, elites, and military and some fear the return of an authoritarian state. Giovanni Batz writes in NACLA on the 25th anniversary of the signing of… Read More ›
The Tragedy Of The Hogar Seguro: Revealing The Situation Of Guatemalan Children
“Guatemalan childhood is not the future but the present of Guatemala. It should matter to all of us.” ACOGUATE have posted a piece on the upcoming hearings relating to the fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, in… Read More ›
Achi Women – Remedial Measures and UN Statement
Impunity Watch Guatemala presented the above infographic to outline the Remedial Measures awarded to the Maya Achi women in the case against five ex-PAC members, who were each sentenced to 30 years for crimes against humanity. Errors in translation are… Read More ›
Podcast – The indigenous resistance against megaprojects
Gio B’at’z spoke, recently, on the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center podcast, Emancipated, on a book he is working on about the Maya Ixil resistance and the struggle against mega-projects in Guatemala. During the talk, he discusses state-sponsored violence, the… Read More ›
“Becoming president of Guatemala requires resources that I don’t have”
Roman Gressier presents, in El Faro, an interview with Martín Toc, the President of the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán. Few organizations can paralyze Guatemala without setting foot in the capital. The 48 Cantons of Totonicapán, a Maya K’iche’ Indigenous authority… Read More ›
In Guatemala, Ex-Paramilitaries Face Trial for Wartime Rape of Indigenous Women
Jo-Marie Burt and Paolo Estrada write in NACLA about the recently started trial of former members of the Civil Self-Defense Patrols (PAC), for the rape of Indigenous women during the internal armed conflict. The PAC were paramilitary groups created by… Read More ›
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