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 [...]
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 [...]
Xinka Parliament: Ministries have failed to execute consultation over Escobal mine
Representatives of the Xinka Parliament speak with the press following their press conference on December 18. PRESS RELEASE THE MINISTRIES OF ENERGY AND MINES AND OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES HAVE FAILED TO EXECUTE THE CONSULTATION OF THE XINKA PEOPLE REGARDING THE ESCOBAL MINE It has been a year since the issuance of the enforcement order [...]
International Human Rights Day Statement from survivors of the Internal Armed Conflict
Survivors of the Internal Armed Conflict at their Press Conference. Photo Credit: Impunity Watch Statement on International Human Rights Day The Victims and Survivors of the Internal Armed Conflict, convened in National Assembly, declare before national and international public opinion that: 1. We publicly condemn the weakening of all peace and human rights institutions, like the [...]
Human Rights Ombudsman makes recommendations on consultation over Escobal mine
A banner reads: "Xinkas: never conquered, eternally respected." Summary of Recommendations from Guatemala’s Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH) on the Court-Ordered Consultation over the Escobal mine A report on the status of the Constitutional Court-ordered consultation with the Xinka people over the future of the Escobal silver mine from Guatemala’s Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH), first published in [...]