Timeline - NISGUA

March 2019

Hydroelectric bank complaint moves forward amid increasing attacks

nisgua_admin2019-12-25T00:43:09+00:00Tags: attacks, Energía y Renovación S.A., environmental defenders, Huehuetenango, hydroelectric dams, Inter-American Development Bank, Ixquisís, peaceful resistance, Plurinational Government, San Mateo Ixtatán|

Community members in Ixquisis gather. Photo credit: Nomada On March 4, 2019, the Ancestral Plurinational Government of the Akateo, Chuj, Popti, and Q'anjob'al Original Nations released a statement expressing their outrage [...]

February 2019

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 [...]