Project Description
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 HuntAdditional reading about community consultations
April Solidarity Update
Welcome to the April edition of our solidarity update! In this newsletter, we discuss developments in the Ixil Genocide case. Through witness and expert testimonies, we learn how this process, directed by the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR), is contributing to collective memory and to the search for [...]
Actualización caso genocidio Ixil. Del 15 al 19 de abril de 2024
Durante la semana del 15 al 19 de abril continuó el juicio por el Genocidio Ixil contra Benedicto Lucas García. Durante las audiencias estuvieron presentes miembros de la Asociación para la Justicia y Reconciliación (AJR), Autoridades Ancestrales Indígenas Ixiles de Nebaj y miembros de la sociedad civil nacional e [...]
Ixil Genocide Case update, Monday, April 15th, 2024 to Friday, April 19th, 2024.
The Ixil Genocide trial against Benedicto Lucas García continued this week, April 15-19. During the hearings, members of the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) were present, as well as members of of the Ancestral Ixil Indigenous Authorities of Nebaj, and representatives from civil society and the international community. [...]
Statement: Condemn sexual violence in the Ixil Genocide
(ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Guatemala, April 22nd, 2024. The members of the National Platform of Organizations of Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict condemn the inhumane and despicable acts committed by the army against the Maya Ixil people during the dictatorship of Romeo Lucas Garcia (1978-1982). In particular, we repudiate the [...]
The Association of Communities for Development and Defense of the Land and Natural Resources (ACODET) in its Sixteenth General Assembly, declares before public opinion:
(ESPAÑOL ABAJO) We, the Indigenous and ancestral authorities of the different Indigenous communities of Ixcán, Cobán, and Uspantán that make up the Association of Communities for the Development and Defense of the Land and Natural Resources (ACODET), are convened in the community La Libertad Xalarocjá, in the municipality of [...]
Statement for the defense of territory and food sovereignty
(ESPAÑOL ABAJO) We, representatives of the communities of La Costa Sur, Huehuetenango and the Indigenous Local Government of San Juan Cotzal, have convened in the Ixil territory of K’usal to share and exchange experiences of our wisdom for the defense of territory, reiterating our commitment to search for harmony [...]
