Timeline - NISGUA

May 2020

Accompanier Perspectives: What is happening at the border?

nisgua_admin2020-05-13T20:10:26+00:00Tags: accompaniment, ADIVIMA, Asylum Cooperation Agreements, borders, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), immigration, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), metering, Remain in Mexico, safe third country|

Nicole Estrada (she/her) wrote this blog while volunteering as an international accompanier in our GAP Internacionalista program. Her blog is here both as a text and an illustrated booklet -- check it out! [...]

April 2020

April 2020 Solidarity Update

nisgua_admin2020-04-30T20:06:50+00:00Tags: Association Pop No'j, Campaign, covid 19, CREOMPAZ, Escobal mine, Hogar Seguro, Human Rights Defenders, impunity, internal armed conflict, international mayan league, Ixil genocide case, Molina Theissen case, SIPAZ, Super Zarco, survivors, Tahoe, tour, Xinca Parliament|

Picture of Esteban Celada during a hearing on the Creompaz case. Photo credit: Verdad y Justicia April 2020 Solidarity Update As we all face the multidimensional implications of the [...]

ADH conmemora el Día de la Tierra en el contexto del COVID-19

nisgua_admin2020-04-30T18:27:45+00:00Tags: ADH, defensa del territorio|

Miembres de la Asamblea Departamental de Pueblos de Huehuetenango (ADH) en una manifestación en julio de 2019. Lee el comunicado por la Asamblea Departamental de Pueblos de Huehuetenango (ADH), marcando el Día [...]

Statement: During the Coronavirus emergency military condemned intend to get out of jail

nisgua_admin2020-04-28T18:41:03+00:00Tags: CREOMPAZ, crimes against humanity, forced disappearance, genocide, Maya Ixil, Molina Theissen case, partner statement, sexual violence|

As several grave war crimes cases have been temporarily suspended, the lawyer of five senior military officials convicted in the Molina Theissen case (including Benedicto Lucas García and Manuel Callejas y Callejas) made another [...]

CALDH denounces break in at the home of Lawyer Esteban Celada, lawyer of high impact cases

nisgua_admin2020-04-27T00:06:59+00:00Tags: CALDH, CREOMPAZ, Molina Theissen case, Sepur Zarco|

NISGUA joins CALDH in denouncing the break-in of the home of Esteban Celada. Esteban is a well known Guatemalan lawyer who currently represents the girls massacred in a state-run youth shelter "Hogar Virgen de [...]

Movimientos Ancestrales: Territorios Indígenas y Migración

nisgua_admin2020-04-23T19:52:00+00:00Tags: Asociación Pop No'j, consultas, covid 19, gira, migración, mina Escobal, Resistencia pacífica de Casillas, seminario virtual, Silvia Raquec, tercer país seguro, Theres Munoz|

Silvia Raquec, coordinadora del Programa de Migración de la Asociación Pop No'j y la oradora de la gira de NISGUA de 2020. Toma acción: No a los acuerdos [...]