Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• 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 ›

• International Solidarity with Women in the Fight for Land and the Environment in Latin America

  By kevodell on October 1, 2016 • ( 0 )

  September 29, 2016 We, the undersigned, express our solidarity with Angelica Choc and family after gunshots were fired against her home on Friday, September 16, 2016. The attack occurred just after midnight. Four bullets impacted the walls of her home, where… Read More ›

• Indigenous communities mobilize to defend Guatemala’s forests from loggers

  By kevodell on September 17, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Jeff Abbott writes in the Waging Nonviolence website about indigenous communities protecting their forests from logging interests. Across Guatemala, indigenous communities are organizing to challenge logging in the country’s vast forests. These communities are concerned with the impact that both… Read More ›

• Nim Ajpu: Indigenous lawyers who are changing the face of Guatemala

  By kevodell on September 17, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Manuela Picq writes in the Intercontinental Cry magazine website about the Association of Maya Lawyers and Notaries in Guatemala. Nim Ajpu is a name that’s known to all Quiché Maya Peoples. A nahual or spirit that accompanies and protects us… Read More ›

• La Puya – La Antorcha de la Dignidad (The Torch of Dignity)

  By kevodell on September 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  September the 15th is Guatemala’s Independence Day and is celebrated by marches, formal activities, and patriotic symbols. You cannot avoid the proliferation of the national flag across the capital and in the towns. Like every nationalist project, it is the… Read More ›

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