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January 2020 Solidarity Update

By nisgua_admin|February 1st, 2020|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update|Tags: arbitrary arrest, Association Pop No'j, criminalization, GAP internacionalista, Huehuetenango, Maya Achí Sexual Violence Case, militarization, safe third country, speaking tour, Urgent Action|0 Comments

Más de 45 organizaciones exigen libertad para el defenser Maya Chuj Julio Gómez

Julio Gómez, Maya Chuj Coordinador del Gobierno Ancestral Plurinacional local, dirigiéndose a miles de personas en el Parque Central de San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango. Fotografía por Nelton Rivera, Prensa Comunitaria Km. 169 28 de enero de 2020 Lic. María Consuelo Porras Fiscal General de la República de Guatemala Édgar Godoy Samayoa Ministro de Gobernación Lic. Nester [...]

By nisgua_admin|January 29th, 2020|Categories: defensa del territorio, Huehuetenango - ESP|Tags: Akateko, Chuj, criminalizacion, detención arbitraria, Energía y Renovación S.A., Gobierno Plurinacional, hidroeléctrica, Huehuetenango, Ixquisís, Julio Gómez, Maya, Popti', Q'anjob'al, San Mateo Ixtatán|0 Comments

Over 45 organizations demand release of Maya Chuj land defender Julio Gómez

Julio Gómez Lucas speaks before a crowd of thousands of people in San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango. Photo credit: Nelton Rivera, Prensa Comunitaria Km. 169 January 28, 2020 María Consuelo Porras Attorney General of the Republic of Guatemala Édgar Godoy Samayoa Department of the Interior Nester Mauricio Vásquez Pimentel President, Supreme Court of Justice CC: Sara Romero [...]

By nisgua_admin|January 29th, 2020|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Huehuetenango|Tags: Akateko, arbitrary arrest, Chuj, criminalization, Energía y Renovación S.A., Gobierno Plurinacional, Huehuetenango, Ixquisís, Julio Gómez, Maya, Plurinational Government, Popti', Q'anjob'al, San Mateo Ixtatán|0 Comments

Accompanier Perspectives: Our struggles are connected and so is our liberation

Welcome to this second Friends and Family letter, I hope you are staying warm and cozy this winter days! I wish you a festive, joyous and reflective time. Below you’ll read about my reflections as well as my wishes for the next decade: for political prisoners to be freed, the closing of the School of the Americas, to abolish [...]

By nisgua_admin|January 18th, 2020|Categories: Accompanier Perspectives, Justice and accountability|Tags: Abolish Ice, accompaniment, AJR, CALDH, community consultation, criminalization, genocide, genocide trial, internal armed conflict, Ixil, ODHAG, prison abolition, School of the Americas, survivors, trial|0 Comments

December solidarity update

By nisgua_admin|December 27th, 2019|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: donate, Escobal mine, indigenous resistance, internal armed conflict, international human rights day, justice for genocide, Maya Achí, militarization, NISGUA gifts, Pan American Silver, Xinka Parliament|0 Comments

Parlamento Xinka: El incumplimiento de los ministerios de llevar a cabo la consulta sobre la mina Escobal

Representantes del Parlamento Xinka hablan con los medios durante su conferencia de prensa el 18 de diciembre de 2019. COMUNICADO DE PRENSA POR EL INCUMPLIMIENTO DE LOS MINISTERIOS DE ENERGIA Y MINAS Y DE AMBIENTE Y RECURSOS NATURALES DE LLEVAR A CABO LA CONSULTA AL PUEBLO XINKA, SOBRE EL PROYECTO MINERO EL ESCOBAL Ha trascurrido más [...]