Guatemalan Indigenous Organizations File Complaint over Mining Law with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Sources: Western Peoples' Council (CPO) - Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) - MiningWatch Canada – Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) (Guatemala City/Ottawa/Washington) Tuesday, Guatemala's Western Peoples' Council of Mayan organizations (CPO) filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) alleging that the country’s mining law was approved without their prior consultation as [...]
El Consejo de los pueblos Mayas y Xinka denuncian al estado de Guatemala ante la CIDH
El Consejo presenta su denuncia el 3 de septiembre de 2013. Foto: CPO EL CONSEJO DE LOS PUEBLOS MAYAS Y XINKA, DENUNCIAN AL ESTADO DE GUATEMATEMA ANTE LA COMISIÓN INTERAMERICANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Porque la Corte de Constitucionalidad, mediante sentencia emitida el 28 de febrero de 2013, resolvió sin lugar la acción de inconstitucionalidad planteada en contra de la [...]
The Council of Maya and Xinca Peoples denounces the Guatemalan State in the IACHR
The Council presents their demand on September 3, 2013. Photo: CPO THE COUNCIL OF MAYA AND XINCA PEOPLES DENOUNCES THE GUATEMALAN STATE IN THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS On February 28, 2013, the Guatemalan Constitutional Court dismissed the Council’s challenge of unconstitutionality filed against the mining law on March 12, 2012. As a result of leaving the current [...]
Urgent Communique: Detention of Leaders from Santa Cruz Barillas
On Tuesday, August 27, Saúl Aurelio Méndez Muñoz and Antonio Rogelio Velásquez López, community leaders opposed to the imposition of the Cambalam hydroelectric project, operated by Hidro Santa Cruz, property of Spanish company Hidralia S.A., were arrested outside of a Guatemala City courthouse. Saúl and Antonio had traveled to the capital from Santa Cruz Barillas for a hearing regarding [...]
Comunicado urgente por detención a lideres de Santa Cruz Barillas
A LA OPINIÓN PÚBLICA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL MANIFESTAMOS: El pueblo Q'anjobal de Santa Cruz Barillas a pesar de la represión y violación a sus derechos humanos a defendido su territorio a través de las consultas comunitarias ante la instalación de la hidroeléctrica propiedad de la empresa española Hidralia S.A. No obstante el Estado no respeta la consulta comunitaria, y [...]
Declaration of the Second Gathering of the Q’anjob’al Nationalities
On August 21 – 23, leaders and representatives of twenty Maya Q'anjob'al communities in northern Huehuetenango and Chiapas, Mexico, gathered in San Juan Ixcoy, Huehuetenango to discuss the ongoing imposition of large-scale development projects on their territory and to continue generating strategies for unified resistance moving forward. The three day, cross-border event focused on the reconstitution and autonomy of [...]