*COMUNICADO URGENTE*
*COMUNICADO URGENTE*Ante la opinión pública nacional e internacional, ante los últimos acontecimientos sucedidos en el municipio de Santa Cruz Barillas Huehuetenango MANIFESTAMOS:El día de ayer a eso de la una de la tarde; hombres armados emboscaron a tres personas, líderes comunitarios; que retornaban de la cabecera municipal hacia su comunidad cercana a Posa Verde, lugar donde la empresa hidrosanta cruz [...]
Take Action! Sign Petition on Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine
Participe en la acción urgente dirigida a Goldcorp - Versión en españolCanadian mining company with U.S. investors could leave indigenous communities with multi-million dollar bill to pay.We need your support to help defend the rights of indigenous peoples affected by mining in Guatemala's western highlands.On April 26, Goldcorp will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) of shareholders in South Porcupine, [...]
NISGUA visits Sponsoring Community in Washington, D.C. area
The victim asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering. ... To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins victim and witness in a common alliance. ... In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of [...]
Paramilitaries Sentenced to Thousands of Years for Plan de Sánchez Massacre
The information below was translated from a press statement by CALDH (in Spanish below) Read Amnesty International's statementOn March 20, the First Tribunal for High Risk Cases in Guatemala sentenced 5 members of the Guatemalan military to 7,710 years in prison for the massacre of 256 people in the Plan de Sánchez community in July of 1982.The former military commissioner [...]
Historica condena por masacre de Plan de Sánchez
Comunicado de CALDH - www.caldh.orgEl Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos, CALDH, manifiesta su complacencia ante la reciente condena de un comisionado militar y cuatro ex patrulleros militares responsables de la masacre de la Aldea Plan de Sánchez, Rabinal, en julio de 1982 en donde fueron asesinadas más de doscientas cincuenta personas.La sentencia condenatoria recoge elementos fundamentales para [...]
High Commissioner received by thousands in Totonicapán
Community mayor raise their varas, staffs symbolic of their authority.Graham HuntOn March 13, 2012, gathered in the Atanasio Tzul stadium in the city of Totonicapán, thousands of representatives of Indigenous Peoples from across Guatemala welcomed the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on official visit to the country. In discourses pronounced before the assembly and reports presented [...]