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• Guatemalan communities reject mining in local territory

  By Patrick Daniels on November 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  As multinational companies continue to seek licences for mineral exploitation in Guatemala, time and again local communities reject these initiatives in popular consultas comunitarias. Not only do they site the environmental damage that will be done to their lands, and the lack… Read More ›

• Mexican Human Rights Defender in London

  By Patrick Daniels on October 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International have organised a visit to London of the Mexican human rights defender Tita Radilla. She is the vice-president of the Mexican Association of Relatives of the Detained, Disappeared and Victims of Human Rights Violations (AFADEM). Her visit… Read More ›

• URGENT ACTION: COMMUNITY LEADER KILLED BY PRIVATE SECURITY AGENTS

  By kevodell on October 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  URGENT ACTION from ACOGUATE: A break-down in negotiations and a series of illegal eviction/removal attempts in the dispute between Guatemalan Nickel Company and neighbouring communities has led to an attack by armed groups, among them security agents of the company,… Read More ›

• Recent killings linked to Canadian-owned nickel mine in Guatemala

  By kevodell on October 1, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Dawn Paley writes in The Dominion that two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel mine in Guatemala. This article appeared on Upside Down World. The first… Read More ›

• Urgent Action: Children of Human Right’s Defender Threatened

  By Patrick Daniels on September 18, 2009 • ( 0 )

  We’ve just received the following message from Kathy Dill – more info in taking part in this urgent action. On the afternoon of September 14th, 2009, human rights defender Jesus Tecú Osorio received a telephone call on his personal cell… Read More ›

• Public meeting in London – Latin American women to speak about mining issues

  By Patrick Daniels on September 15, 2009 • ( 0 )

  LAMMP (Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme), a member group of London Mining Network, is hosting a public meeting on Tuesday 13th October with rural and indigenous women activists from Latin America. The meeting will be at Amnesty International UK’s Human… Read More ›

• Historic conviction in forced disappearance case

  By Patrick Daniels on September 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On the 31st August, 2009, former military commissioner Felipe Cusanero Coj was sentenced to 150 years of prison for the forced disappearance of six members of the community of Choatalum in the department of Chimaltenango, between 1982 and 1984. Although… Read More ›

• An injustice and abuse of the law

  By kevodell on August 16, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Raul Figueroa Sarti is a well known, and well respected, human rights-focused publisher in Guatemala. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of F&G Editores.  Its publications examine sensitive and important human rights issues that are not frequently covered in… Read More ›

• Great news in a case of forced disappearance

  By Patrick Daniels on July 29, 2009 • ( 0 )

  It’s exciting being here in Guatemala when there are advances in the trials we follow. Last week some great news came out about the case of forced disappearance in the village of Choatalum, the only case currently being tried for… Read More ›

• Interamerican Commission of Human Rights concludes a visit to Guatemala

  By Patrick Daniels on June 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The Interamerican Commission on Human Rights recently concluded a visit to Guatemala. As one of the American bodies charged with oversight of the respect for human rights it periodically visits member states. These visits are part of its monitoring role,… Read More ›

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