ACTIVE: Community Consultations

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 Hunt

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Additional reading about community consultations

27July, 2011

History-making Dos Erres massacre trial begins: on-going coverage

More than 28 years have passed since the massacre of more than 250 men, women, and children in the small farming community of Las Dos Erres, Petén. For 17 years, survivors and family members of victims have struggled to bring the perpetrators to justice, with the support of the [...]

21July, 2011

Justice for Victor Leiva

Dear friends, On February 20, 2011, our friend Victor Leiva, artist and founding member of the collective Caja Ludica, was taken from us. Victor was shot to death while leaving his work in the Historical Center of Guatemala City, in circumstances which have not been clarified. We are requesting signatures [...]

21July, 2011

Justicia para Victor Leiva

Estimados compañeros y compañeras: El 2 de febrero del 2011 quitaron la vida de nuestro amigo Víctor Leiva, artista, promotor cultural y miembro fundador del colectivo Caja Lúdica. Víctor fue asesinado por arma de fuego cuando salía de su trabajo en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad Capital, por circunstancias [...]

12July, 2011

Public Declaration of the Mam and Kiche’ Peoples of the Department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Graham HuntIn a press conference carried out in Guatemala City on July 12, 2011, community leaders presented the following:PUBLIC DECLARATION OF THE MAM AND KICHE' PEOPLES OFTHE DEPARTMENT OF QUETZALTENANGO, GUATEMALAThe municipalities of the Mam territory of Quetzaltenango: Huitán, Cajolá, San Miguel Siguilá San Juan Ostuncalco, San Martín Sacatepéquez and [...]

12July, 2011

Pronunciamiento Público de los Pueblos Mam y Kiche’ del Departamento de Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Graham HuntEn una conferencia de prensa llevada a cabo en la Ciudad de Guatemala el 12 de julio del 2011, líderes comunitarios dieron lectura al siguiente:PRONUNCIAMIENTO PÚBLICO DE LOS PUEBLOS MAM Y KICHE' DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE QUETZALTENANGO, GUATEMALALos municipios del área Mam del departamento de Quetzaltenango: Huitán, Cajolá, San Miguel [...]

22June, 2011

Guatemala observes National Day Against Forced Disappearance

Graham HuntOn June 21, 2011, in different activities carried out in Guatemala City, family members of victims, activists and others gathered in honor of the more than 45,000 forcibly disappeared in Guatemala's 36-year civil war, as well as to remember the countless others disappeared in conflicts around the world. [...]