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
Urgent concern for safety of human rights defenders of San Miguel Ixtahuacán following peaceful protests
TAKE ACTION through Amnesty International Guatemala 28 February 2011The Network in Solidarity with the People of GuatemalaCollectif GuatemalaBreaking the SilenceRights ActionUrgent concern for safety of human rights defenders of San Miguel Ixtahuacán following peaceful protests We denounce the human rights violations and abuses committed today against peaceful protesters in San [...]
Jennifer Harbury releases evidence in Bamaca case – Jennifer Harbury divulga pruebas en caso Bamaca
Jennifer Harbury speaks to the press. Graham HuntJennifer Harbury da declaraciones a la prensa.On Tuesday, February 22, 2010, following the Guatemalan Constitutional Court's February 11 decision to suspend the reopening of investigations regarding the 1992 forced disappearance of her husband, guerrilla commander Efraín Bamaca, Jennifer Harbury released to the Guatemalan [...]
Olintepeque celebrates preventive community referendum – Olintepeque celebra consulta comunitaria preventiva
A view of the Xequijel river, in Olintepeque, Quetzaltenango. Graham HuntUna Vista del Río Xequijel, en Olintepeque, Quetzaltenango.On February 20, 1524, Tecún Umán, last king of the K'iché nation, was killed in battle against the Spanish conquerors. 487 years later to the day, citizens of the municipality of Olintepeque, the [...]
Citizens of San Juan Ostuncalco reject mining – Ciudadanos de San Jan Ostuncalco rechazan minería
San Juan Ostuncalco's central plaza on the morning of the referendum. Graham HuntLa plaza central de San Juan Ostuncalco en la mañana de la consulta.On February 18, 2011, in the 49th good faith community referendum celebrated in Guatemala, 33,428 men, women, and children rejected all mining exploration and exploitation in [...]
Remembering Oscar David Hernández Quiroa – Recordando a Oscar David Hernández Quiroa
Graham HuntOn February 23, 1984, at approximately 5:45 PM, Oscar David Hernández Quiroa, electromechanic at the headquarters of the Volunteer Firefighters, was ambushed in central Guatemala City by twelve armed men traveling in three vehicles. Wounded by gunfire, he was forced into one of the vehicles and never seen again, [...]
Report: Making strides towards justice, chipping away at Guatemala’s wall of impunity
In 2003, members of the community of Choatalúm dared to do the unthinkable: they publicly denounced then-mayor Felipe Cusanero Coj for his responsibility as military commissioner for the forced disappearances of six family members between 1982 and 1984. Forced disappearance, a kidnapping authorized by a State that refuses to [...]
