Timeline - NISGUA

Solidarity Update: February 2019

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T19:05:45+00:00Tags: accompaniment, AJR, Amnesty, Congress, cross-border solidarity, hiring, Huehuetenango, inter-nation solidarity, international accompaniment, international mayan league, Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin, La Puya, staff|

News recap: Join NISGUA- as staff or as an accompanier!; Survivors Respond as Guatemalan Congress Threatens Amnesty; Sign On in Solidarity with Cross-Border Indigenous Organizing for Self-Determination; Plurinational Government, Omaha Nation Hold Summit in Q’anjob’al territory, [...]

Four lessons from survivors on the Day of Dignification for Victims

nisgua_admin2019-02-28T22:20:23+00:00Tags: accompaniment, AJR, CALDH, genocide, Guatemala, human rights, impunity, indigenous rights, Ixil, justice, Maya, Rigoberta Menchu Tum|

In 1999, the UN-sponsored Commission for Historical Clarification presented its report, Guatemala: Memory of Silence, which documented the crimes the Guatemalan state had committed against its own people during the Internal Armed Conflict. Each [...]

Sobrevivientes del Terrorismo del Estado, Organizaciones Rechazan Amnistía en Guatemala

nisgua_admin2019-12-25T00:43:29+00:00Tags: amnistía, CALDH, carta internacional, congreso, crímenes de lesa humanidad, HIJOS, impunidad, justicia|

Organizaciones en Guatemala, entre ellas CALDH e HIJ@S, publicaron una carta abierta denunciando el intento del Congreso a aprobar una iniciativa de ley garantizando amnistía. La iniciativa de ley arriesgaría décadas de lucha por [...]

Survivors of State Terror, Organizations Reject Amnesty in Guatemala

nisgua_admin2019-12-25T00:43:43+00:00Tags: Amnesty, CALDH, Congress, crimes against humanity, HIJOS|

Guatemalan partner organizations, including CALDH and HIJ@S, published an open letter denouncing Guatemalan congressional attempts to pass amnesty legislation. The proposed legislation could overturn decades of work for justice, allowing those responsible for crimes against humanity [...]

Solidarity Update: January 2019

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T19:05:46+00:00Tags: accompaniment, Amnesty, civil society, community consultation, coup, Escobal, Escobal mine, GAP, hiring, international accompaniment, jobs, Maya Achí, Pan American Silver Corp., sexual violence, Tahoe Resources, take action, technical coup|

News recap: NISGUA is hiring!; Civil society reacts as political crisis escalates to a technical coup; Stand with Indigenous and campesino communities' right to self-determination; Pan American buys Tahoe Resources, inheriting Escobal Mine's legacy of human rights [...]

International Organizations Publish Statement in Solidarity with La Puya

nisgua_admin2019-12-25T00:43:58+00:00Tags: international arbitration, KCA, La Puya, militarization, Mining, resistance to mining, sign-on letter, solidarity|

NISGUA joins 10 international organizations who stand in solidarity with the communities of the Peaceful Resistance “La Puya” impacted by the international arbitration claim filed against the state of Guatemala by US mining company, [...]