Project Description
Community Consultations: A model of resistance under attack in Guatemala
A bill currently before Guatemalan Congress seeks to co-opt the consultation process and violate the rights of indigenous communities to free, prior, and informed consent. Add your voice in calling on the Guatemalan government to respect the results of community-organized consultations.
Three ways to take action:
1. Print out the postcard and mail it to NISGUA’s office for delivery
2. Read more about the incredible role that consultations play in community organizing to protect land, life, and self-determination
3. Sign the extended action! Petition available here.
Photo: Graham HuntAdditional reading about community consultations
Statement from ACODET: 18 Years of Resistance — Communities Speak Out on Land, Water, and Political Crisis in Guatemala
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. ACODET – ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEFENSE OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DECLARATION OF THE XVIII ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...]
Statement from Coordinación Genocidio Nunca Más: Justice for the 45,000 Forcibly Disappeared
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. WHERE ARE THE 45,000 FORCIBLY DETAINED-DISAPPEARED PERSONS? On June 21, National Day Against Enforced Disappearance, families of victims, survivor collectives, and social organizations declare: Guatemala has [...]
Solidarity Letter: 9th Anniversary of the Peaceful Xinka Resistance to the Escobal Mine in Casillas, Santa Rosa
Dear members of the Peaceful Xinka Resistance to the Escobal Mine in Casillas, Santa Rosa, We, the undersigned international organizations, express our deepest respect and admiration for the nine years that you have maintained the resistance camp and for the over fifteen years that you have been organizing to [...]
Statement from Casillas Resistance: 9 Years of Resistance—The Xinka People Still Say NO to Mining
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. For life and our land, here we are! Press release marking the 9th anniversary of the Xinka people’s peaceful resistance and the 15th anniversary of the [...]
Luz Leticia Hernández Agustín: More Than 40 Years of Searching, Truth, and Justice (& Part 3)
This is the third and last part in a series of informational texts published by NISGUA, translated from materials produced by FAMDEGUA (Families of the Detained Disappeared of Guatemala) and Verdad y Justicia, about the forced disappearance of Luz Leticia Hernández Agustín. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 [...]
Five Years After the Arrest of Officials Implicated in the Military Diary Case, Families Continue to Await Justice
On May 27th, 2021, the Guatemalan government arrested eleven former members of its military for crimes committed during the Internal Armed Conflict. These crimes are logged in the "Military Diary" a fifty-four page document leaked to the US National Security Archive and made public on May 20th, 1999. The document [...]
