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
Ixil Genocide Update. May 20th – 24th, 2024.
Monday May 20th, 2024. The first forensic anthropology expert Raúl Humberto Archila García, who worked at the FAFG (Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation) until 2013, was present to affirm 3 expert reports on various individual and collective graves. The second expert of the day, the historian Angel Romeo Valdez Estrada, [...]
Ixil Genocide Update. May 13h – 17th, 2024.
Monday, May 13th, 2024 “Today the hearing was suspended due to a problem in the judicial branch network, which was defined as “unusual”. This made it difficult to connect the courtroom with the Military Medical Center, where the defendant, the retired general Manual Benedicto Lucas García, is being held. [...]
Actualización caso Genocidio Ixil. 27 al 30 de mayo de 2024
Lunes 27 de Mayo de 2024 Se presentó la Doctora Elizabeth Oglesby de origen estadounidense quien ratificó el peritaje de desplazamiento forzado causado a la población Ixil. Oglesby relató que llegó por primera vez a Guatemala a trabajar en la década de los ochenta en la región Ixil, pero [...]
Actualización caso genocidio Ixil. 20 al 24 de mayo de 2024
Lunes 20 de mayo Se presentó el primer perito en antropología forense Raúl Humberto Archila García, quien trabajó en la FAFG (Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala) hasta 2013 y se presentó a ratificar 3 peritajes de diversas fosas tanto individuales como colectivas. El segundo perito del día, el [...]
