The Winter edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. It features the leadership of Guatemala’s Indigenous in the struggle to defend democracy with pieces by Marta Estela Gutiérrez Montúfar and Isabel Solis…. Read More ›
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“We are not trespassers: this is our land”: Agrarian Conflict & Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Alta Verapaz
Peace Brigades International UK (PBI-UK) recently held a launch of a report drawn up by a group of international human rights lawyers who travelled to Alta Verapaz earlier this year on a fact-finding mission. They went there to to meet… Read More ›
Five Things to Know About the Guatemalan Elections
Shortly after the results of the presidential election election in Guatemala became known and attempts had already started to discredit and ban the Semilla Party from the second round run-off, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) published a piece… Read More ›
International legal experts gravely concerned at lack of protections for Indigenous peoples and human rights defenders in Guatemala
Peace Brigades International UK (PBI-UK) accompanied a group of international lawyers to Guatemala concerned at UN and civil society reports regarding human rights violations associated with agrarian conflict in Alta Verapaz. The International Delegation of Independent Lawyers travelled to Alta… Read More ›
The ‘Sharpshooter’ Targetting The Leaders Of The Fight Against Corruption In Guatemala
‘The ‘Sharpshooter’ Targetting The Leaders Of The Fight Against Corruption In Guatemala’ is the result of an investigation carried out by Guatemala Leaks and CONNECTAS and published, in this instance, on the website of Agencia Ocote. It tells the story… Read More ›
La Puya – A Mining Lawsuit In Guatemala Shows How Trade Courts Put Locals Last
A U.S. mining company is suing Guatemala over a shuttered project. The state relied on affected communities to mount a legal defense, but now it’s trying to bypass them to open the mine. Ana Sandoval writes in Foreign Policy In… Read More ›
The Jungle Patrol: Fighting Illegal Loggers on the Guatemala-Mexico Border
Alejandro Melgoza and Alex Papadovassilakis present an important and fascinating report, on InSight Crime, into how a shadowy timber mafia, with ties to Asia, is illegally extracting precious wood on the Guatemala-Mexico border. They document how illegal loggers have ravaged… Read More ›
Special Reports: Guatemala’s Downward Spiral
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC), and the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLf) have, together, presented three reports into the challenges being faced by human… Read More ›
FAO Report: Guatemala included among 19 countries with acute food insecurity
Ana Lucía González writes, in La Hora, about Guatemala being added to the list of ‘Hunger Hotspots’ compiled by the FAO/WFP. The report ‘Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity, October 2022 to January 2023 Outlook’ warns that… Read More ›
Wounds Reopened: The Impacts of Democratic Backsliding on Human Rights in Guatemala
GHRC/USA led an Emergency Human Rights Delegation to Guatemala to document the impacts of the democratic backsliding and destruction of rule of law on human rights defenders. The delegation met with, among others, defenders, lawyers, journalists, Indigenous land defenders, and… Read More ›
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