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 Case Update. September 9-12, 2024
Monday, September 9, hearing 69 The expert witness Claudia Eugenia Rivera Fernandez appeared and ratified 4 expert reports. The first is related to the exhumation carried out in Acul, Nebaj, Quiché on April 20, 1998. In this exhumation, 23 people were recovered who, according to testimonies, were killed by [...]
Ixil Genocide Case Update. September 2nd 2024
September 2, 2024, Hearing 68 On Monday, September 2, the expert Guillermo Vázquez appeared at the Court via zoom call from the Guatemalan consulate in Mexico. His first expert report corresponds to the one carried out in the Xecax canton, where 34 skeletons were recovered, of which 31 were [...]
Actualización del caso Genocidio Ixil. 2 de septiembre del 2024
Lunes 2 de septiembre de 2024. Audiencia 68 El lunes 2 de septiembre se presentó desde el consulado de Guatemala en México el perito Guillermo Vázquez. El primer peritaje corresponde al realizado en el cantón Xecax, en donde se recuperaron 34 osamentas de las cuales se identificaron 31. El [...]
Ixil Genocide Case Update. August 19-21, 2024
This week 9 witnesses of massacres and one witness of sexual violence testified in Santa Maria Nebaj against Lucas Garcia for the massacres and crimes committed in 1982. Outside the courthouse in Nebaj, a banner commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 2013 genocide sentence is seen, which was placed [...]
Actualización del caso Genocidio Ixil. Del 19 al 21 de agosto del 2024
Esta semana se presentaron en Santa María Nebaj 9 testigos de masacres y una testiga de violencia sexual, para testificar contra el ex- militar Benedicto Lucas García por las masacres y crímenes cometidos en 1982 contra la población Maya Ixil. Afuera del juzgado en Nebaj se observa una manta [...]
Ixil Genocide Case Update. August 12 & 13, 2024
Monday, August 12, Hearing 63 The presiding judge informed those present in the courtroom that on Saturday, August 10, Lucas Garcia's defense filed a written recusal against the Tribunal. According to the defense lawyers, the tribunal allowed expert witness Bertoni to go beyond the limits of his testimony by [...]
