Solidarity Updates

5February, 2019

Solidarity Update: January 2019

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:46+00:00February 5th, 2019|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: accompaniment, Amnesty, civil society, community consultation, coup, Escobal, Escobal mine, GAP, hiring, international accompaniment, jobs, Maya Achí, Pan American Silver Corp., sexual violence, Tahoe Resources, take action, technical coup|0 Comments

News recap: NISGUA is hiring!; Civil society reacts as political crisis escalates to a technical coup; Stand with Indigenous and campesino communities' right to self-determination; Pan American buys Tahoe Resources, inheriting Escobal Mine's legacy of human rights [...]

15January, 2019

Solidarity Update: December 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:46+00:00January 15th, 2019|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: accompaniment, ACODET, AJR, assassinations, CALDH, community consultation, Consulta, CREOMPAZ, criminalization, environmental defenders, environmental justice, genocide, GNIB, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, human rights, hydroelectric dams, impunity, indigenous rights, international arbitration, Ixquisís, justice, KCA, Military Zone 21, sexual violence, speaking tour|0 Comments

News recap: Organizations demand justice in wake of assassinations and ongoing violence in Ixquisis, TAKE ACTION to stand with communities working to protect community consultations, NISGUA Speaking Tour shares lessons from successful organizing in Chixoy-Copón Rivers [...]

5December, 2018

Solidarity Update: November 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:47+00:00December 5th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: 2018 tour, ACODET, actions, attacks, community consultation, criminalization, defamation, hydroelectric dams, municipal consultation, partner statement, political education and horizontal exchange, self-determination, Xalalá Dam|0 Comments

News recap: NISGUA celebrates a successful fall speaking tour; Communities celebrate another year of resistance; Take action to stand with Indigenous Peoples to demand respect for Indigenous self-determination in Guatemala; ACODET releases statement in [...]

29October, 2018

Solidarity Update: October 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:47+00:00October 29th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: 2018 tour, 500 years, accompaniment, ACODET, AJR, calendar, Dos Erres, Edwin Canil, genocide, genocide retrial, genocide verdict, House parties, hydroelectric dams, indigenous resistance, indigenous rights, international accompaniment, Ixquisís, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, Rodriguez Sanchez, Santos Lopez Alonso, Xalalá, Xalalá Dam, Zoom|0 Comments

Solidarity Update news recap: NISGUA’s Fall Speaking Tour Kicks Off in November; AJR President, Edwin Canil, speaks on the fight for justice for genocide in "Learning From Survivors" talk; NISGUA welcomes a new GAP cohort; Former [...]

29September, 2018

Solidarity Update: September 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:47+00:00September 29th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: AJR, CALDH, CICIG, Constitutional Court, Escobal mine, genocide trial, Grassroots gatherings, grassroots global justice alliance, Ixil, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, Ohlone Shellmound and Village Sacred Site, Solidarity to Solutions Summit, Tahoe Resources, Xinka Parliament|0 Comments

News recap: Court affirms that the state enacted genocide, but finds Rodríguez Sánchez not guilty in a split decision; Constitutional Court upholds temporary suspension of Escoal mine and calls on the State to consult [...]

24August, 2018

Solidarity Update: August 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:48+00:00August 24th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: Escobal, Estuardo Quevedo, Front Line Defenders, Huehuetenango, Inter-American Development Bank, Ixquisís, Sebastián Alonso Juan, sign-on letters, Tahoe Resources|0 Comments

News recap: Communities in Huehuetenango call out the Inter-American Development Bank for human rights and environmental violations in Ixquisis; Over 60 international organizations call for an investigation into the murder of environmental activist Estuardo [...]