2018 Accomplishments
Our 2018 Accomplishments In 2018, NISGUA created opportunities for horizontal exchange, for political education, and for growing into a lifelong commitment to organizing for a just world. This year, as communities faced [...]
18 Years Seeking Justice in the Courts
People from the community of Choatalúm meet with human rights lawyer Edgar Pérez as the first case of forced disappearance goes to trial (Credit: Amanda Kistler) 18 Years Seeking Justice [...]
Community Consultations: A model of resistance
Maya K’iche’ and Maya Uspanteko citizens vote in an October 2010 referendum in Uspantán, El Quiché. More than 25,000 residents voted to reject mining and hydroelectric megaprojects in the municipality. Photo: Graham Hunt [...]
Water is Life
In Guatemala, the decades-plus organizing of ACODET offers concrete lessons to movements defending land and neighborhoods. ACODET has staved off the imposition of the Xalalá Dam and strengthened a regional movement for indigenous self-determination. They not only denounce the waste and pollution of water, but also lift up the need to protect indigenous life and strengthen community defense.
2017 Accomplishments
Members of the NISGUA staff and board meet with the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango (ADH). Our 2017 Accomplishments This year, our work continued to focus on drawing deeper connections [...]
Forced Disappearance: Resilience and creativity in the defense of memory and search for justice
450 chairs are set up in Guatemala City on June 30, 2017 to commemorate the 45,000 people disappeared by the Guatemalan military. Credit: CPR Urbana. Photo: Faces of some of [...]
In Defense of Land
In defense of land: Environmental defenders on the frontlines of the global struggle for community self-determination and respect for the Earth The Earth is in the midst of an unprecedented ecological crisis, the impacts [...]
No to the militarization of communities and borders. Yes to self-determination!
No to militarization of communities and borders. Yes to community self-determination! As the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), we believe that all of us have shared stakes with [...]
CREOMPAZ: The biggest case of forced disappearance in Latin America
CREOMPAZ: The largest case of forced disappearance in Latin America On January 6, 2016, 14 former military officers were arrested on charges of forced disappearance and crimes against humanity based on evidence [...]
Sepur Zarco: first-ever conviction for sexual and domestic slavery
Sepur Zarco: Q’eqchi’ women set a precedent in Guatemala with first-ever conviction for sexual and domestic slavery In 2012, Doña Mariana*, along with 14 other women, testified to having survived sexual and [...]