Timeline - NISGUA

February 2016

Sponsoring Communities take action: UUCA and NISGUA together in Guatemala

nisgua_admin2017-12-08T21:40:33+00:00Tags: accompaniment, ACOGUATE, AJR, Anthropology, CALDH, Consulta, corporate accountability, criminalization, cross-border organizing, delegations, El Tambor, Escobal mine, FAFG, forensic anthropology, GAP, genocide, Guatemala, human rights, indigenous rights, internal armed conflict, justice, justice for genocide, Llan Carlos Dávila, massacre, Megaprojects / megaproyectos, memory, militarization, Minera San Rafael, Mining, photo, solidarity, Tahoe Resources, UUCA, UUCA-PAG|

One of the pillars of international human rights accompaniment is the backing of a strong and active international network that commits to ongoing education of the international community about the human rights context of [...]

Sepur Zarco: Luz Méndez talks about the emblematic case for sexual slavery

nisgua_admin2017-11-25T19:36:09+00:00Tags: Alliance to End Silence and Impunity, crimes against humanity, Sepur Zarco, sexual slavery, sexual violence, strategic litigation, transitional justice, UNAMG|

Luz Méndez, former director and current board member of the National Union of Guatemalan Women (UNAMG) spoke with NISGUA about the historic Sepur Zarco case that is currently being prosecuted in Guatemalan courts. UNAMG is [...]

Land defenders Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez finally return home

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:16:35+00:00Tags: Huehuetenango, hydroelectric dams, political prisoners, Rogelio Velásquez, Santa Cruz Barillas, Saúl Méndez|

On January 22, 2016, after spending more than two years in prison, wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, land defenders Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez were finally able to return to their homes [...]

Day 1: Despite stall tactics by the defense, Sepur Zarco case opens in Guatemalan courts

nisgua_admin2017-12-29T17:54:38+00:00Tags: crimes against humanity, gender-based violence, internal armed conflict, Sepur Zarco, sexual slavery|

The first case in the world to be tried in a domestic court for sexual and domestic slavery opened in Guatemala City today, for crimes against humanity committed at the Sepur Zarco military base [...]

Today: Justice for Women

nisgua_admin2017-11-25T19:36:09+00:00Tags: Alliance to End Silence and Impunity, crimes against humanity, domestic slavery, gender-based violence, internal armed conflict, justice, MTM, Sepur Zarco, sexual slavery, sexual violence, transitional justice, UNAMG|

Español abajo. Press Release Sepur Zarco Trial January 31, 2016 Today: Justice for Women For more than 30 years, women survivors of sexual violence, sexual slavery and domestic slavery from Sepur Zarco have waited for [...]

January 2016

CREOMPAZ: Eleven retired military officers indicted on charges of crimes against humanity

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T17:26:44+00:00Tags: Cobán, CREOMPAZ, crimes against humanity, forced disappearance, Jimmy Morales, School of the Americas|

Today, 11 former military were indicted on charges of forced disappearance and crimes against humanity committed between 1981 and 1988, based on evidence uncovered at the CREOMPAZ military center in Cobán, Alta Verapaz. Judge Claudette Domínguez [...]