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• Los Ancianos

  By kevodell on January 25, 2017 • ( 4 )

  Doña Sabina in her one-room village home. Without family who can support her, Sabina has very few possessions. At noon each day, she walks barefoot down sharp cobblestones to receive a meal at an elderly nutrition center run by Mayan… Read More ›

• Repression of communities defending their rights in the Micro Region of Ixquisis, San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango

  By kevodell on January 18, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Today, January 17, 2017, the communities of the Micro Region of Ixquisis, San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango, who defend human rights, their territory, life and natural resources, carried out a peaceful protest to express, once again, their rejection and disagreement with… Read More ›

• Former Guatemalan Soldier Charged With Massacring Civilians

  By kevodell on January 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  A U.S. resident has been linked to a 1982 attack on the village of Dos Erres in Guatemala that led to the deaths of about 250 children, women and unarmed men. Sebastian Rotella writes in ProPublica as part of an… Read More ›

• 20 years after peace accords, Guatemalans resist remilitarization of everyday life

  By kevodell on December 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Activists march holding a sign asking where are the disappeared during the anti-military march on June 30. (WNV/Jeff Abbott) On the Waging NonViolence website, Jeff Abbott writes about HIJOS and the right to remember and resist in Guatemala, especially the… Read More ›

• Take Action: Support Communities Resisting “Gunpoint Exploration” Mining Project

  By kevodell on December 18, 2016 • ( 0 )

  This from The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Across Guatemala, communities have innovated diverse strategies to protect and defend their lands and livelihoods. For the communities of San Juan Bosco and Casillas in southeastern Guatemala, the imposition of Tahoe… Read More ›

• Helping to get justice for indigenous women raped and tortured in Guatemala’s civil war

  By kevodell on December 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Feliciana Bernal (Credit: Amy Bracken) On PRI’s The Word, Amy Bracken reports on the story of Feliciana Bernal, who was one of the translators in the Ríos Montt Genocide trial. The piece goes on to say that there has been… Read More ›

• Another Young Environmentalist Is Murdered in Guatemala

  By kevodell on November 24, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Renata Avila writes in the Global Voices website about the recent murder of Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima. Despite an opening of some democratic space in Guatemala, threats against human rights defenders continue to increase. — The murder of 22-year-old Jeremy… Read More ›

• Murder of Young Assistant from Guatemalan Environmental Organization is Evidence of Escalating Risk to Human Rights Defenders

  By kevodell on November 16, 2016 • ( 0 )

  This on the TahoeonTrial website. (Ottawa/Toronto/Vancouver/Reno/Washington/Guatemala) North American organizations are dismayed and deeply troubled by the execution-style murder of 22 year-old Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima, assistant to the director of the Guatemalan Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (CALAS),… Read More ›

• CALAS denounces the murder of colleague Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima

  By kevodell on November 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  The Center for Environmental and Social Legal Action of Guatemala (CALAS) denounces the murder of Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima, assistant to the General Director Yuri Melini. Below is the translated urgent action and original statement in Spanish.  CALAS – Urgent… Read More ›

• CAWN’s 25th Anniversary and Closing event

  By kevodell on November 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Dear friends and supporters, This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Central America Women’s Network. It also marks the final point of CAWN as an active organisation. In 1991, during an intense period of civil war and revolution in Central America, a… Read More ›

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