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• Guatemalans’ Fight Against Rogue Canadian Mining Giant Heats Up

  By kevodell on August 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Guatemalan communities form the area of Santa Cruz del Quiche unanimously vote against resource extraction on their lands. | Photo: Courtesy James Rodriguez, MiMundo.org Communities in Guatemala have repeatedly voiced their opposition to a Tahoe Resources silver mine. The company… Read More ›

• Myrna Mack’s Daughter Appointed Guatemala Health Minister

  By kevodell on August 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Guatemala’s newest minister marks a break from the country’s political elite as she is a self-described leftist, Telesur reports. Recently, in a surprising move, Guatemala’s military brass-linked president’s new health minister is the daughter of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist assassinated… Read More ›

• Protect Lolita Chávez for her defense of natural resources

  By kevodell on July 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The following alert is from IM-Defensoras and can be viewed here. Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic, an active membre of the Council of the Ki’che’ Peoples (CPK), is a woman human rights defender who has constantly spoken out against acts of… Read More ›

• The Secrets in Guatemala’s Bones

  By kevodell on July 2, 2016 • ( 0 )

  One afternoon in 1994, during his senior year in college, Fredy Peccerelli sat at an anthropology conference in Atlanta and stared at the man onstage. Peccerelli had seen the renowned bone detective Clyde Snow before, but only in a textbook…. Read More ›

• Interactive Documentary Exploring Life After Conflict in Guatemala and El Salvador

  By jenniferkennedy on June 22, 2016 • ( 0 )

  When We Were Young, There Was a War is documentary filmmaker Patricia Goudvis’ follow-up to If The Mango Tree Could Speak, a film about ten children, aged between twelve and fifteen, who grew up during the civil wars in Guatemala… Read More ›

• ‘Together we move forward’ – La Puya

  By kevodell on June 18, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International has recently published a report, “I Think, Therefore I Resist”, which describes grassroots experiences of alternative protection and promotion of human rights in the context of large-scale economic investment. The report provides recommendations to the international community… Read More ›

• Panel Discussion Held to Discuss Children and Violence in Guatemala

  By jenniferkennedy on June 13, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), humans rights organisations, and members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the United Nations took part in a panel discussion last month (May 27) to discuss the issue of children and violence in… Read More ›

• Appeals Court Upholds Suspension of Ríos Montt Genocide Trial

  By kevodell on June 5, 2016 • ( 0 )

  “The retrial trial against former head of state General José Efraín Ríos Montt and his former chief of intelligence (“G2”) General Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Maya Ixil population has been definitively… Read More ›

• Former HudBay Mineral’s Head of Security Accused of Murder Gets Protection Detail

  By jenniferkennedy on May 25, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Rights Action, a Washington-based Human Rights NGO, has reported that last Thursday (May 18) a Guatemalan judge ruled that Hudbay Mineral’s former head of security, Mynor Padilla, will be provided with police protection. Padilla stands accused of murdering Adolfo Ich,… Read More ›

• Guatemalan Environmental Defenders on the Front Line of a Global Struggle

  By jenniferkennedy on April 18, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Last month the killing of Honduran activist and winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize Berta Cáceres caused international outcry. Her highly publicised murder has called global attention to the many risks front line environmental defenders face every day, not only… Read More ›

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