Artículos

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  Show Your Support for the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan
  Mar 17, 2011   0
  Please contact your U.S. representative today and ask him or her to endorse a letter circulated by Representative Jan Schakowsky's office about the human rights, health and environmental concerns of 18 indigenous communities near the Marlin mine in the western highlands of Guatemala.
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  Goldcorp Removed from Dow Jones Sustainability Index
  Sep 22, 2011   0
  Effective September 19th, Goldcorp has been removed from the Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index. The announcement comes in the context of ongoing allegations of human rights violations and evidence of environmental contamination in communities affected by Goldcorp’s mining activities.
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  New Report on Mining in Guatemala
  Oct 5, 2011   0
  Guatemala receives about 42% of mine revenues, with local communities receiving only about 5% of revenues, reports the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University in a report released by economists Lyuba Zarsky and Leonardo Stanley on the economic benefits and environmental risks of the Marlin mine in the Department of San Marcos, Guatemala, which is owned and operated by Goldcorp, a Canadian company. The mine has generated intense controversy since 2003, stemming from concerns about environmental contamination and violations of the rights of indigenous communities. 
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  After 57 Years, An Apology to the Arbenz Family
  Oct 22, 2011   0
    On October 20, the day of Guatemala’s revolution, the country’s government  formerly apologized to the family of former president Colonel Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, deposed in a coup in 57 years ago.
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  Evictions, Violence, Hunger and Death in the Polochic Valley
  Oct 25, 2011   0
  As you read this email, Maya Q'eqchi' families in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley face the imminent threat of starvation, sickness, and violence. This is the result of a series of violent -even deadly- land evictions instigated by the Chabil Utzaj sugar company, with the support and participation of the Guatemalan government. The communities watched as their crops were destroyed and houses burned.
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  As Firm as a Tree: Portraits of Diodora
  Oct 25, 2011   0
  On July 7, 2010, Diodora Hernandez, a staunch anti-mining activist, was shot point-blank on the right eye outside her home in the small community of San José Nueva Esperanza – only a few meters from a fence that delimits Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine. One year after her miraculous recuperation, Diodora’s anti-mining stance and activism remains as steadfast as ever.
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  Government Records and Human Rights Prosecutions in Brazil and Beyond
  Dec 9, 2011   0
  The National Security Archive and the Washington Office on Latin America are pleased to invite you to Government Records and Human Rights Prosecutions: The Araguaia case and its implications for truth and justice in Brazil and Latin America
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  Thousands from the International Community Support Peasants Marching in Guatemala
  Mar 29, 2012   0
  On Tuesday, an estimated 10,000 people marched into Guatemala’s capital city. Many had trekked 120 miles from the town of Coban over nine days to draw attention to the plight of the rural and indigenous majority of the Guatemalan population. Their ranks swelled as they neared their destination and the peasants were joined by high school and university students, artists, musicians, unions, human rights activists, and women’s rights groups.
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  Threats and defamation against human rights defender Ms Claudia Samay
  Nov 25, 2012   0
  During the week of 12 November 2012, human rights defender Ms Claudia Virginia Samayoa received warnings of an attack being prepared against her, in the latest incident in an ongoing series of threats and defamatory statements targeting her and several other human rights defenders.
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  Vindicating Claims Internationally: Guatemala’s Community Radio Movement Struggles for Justice
  Mar 31, 2013   0
  In remote communities, many Indigenous people speak only their native language and mainstream radio broadcasting is inaccessible to them. Community radio is an ideal medium to address the distinct needs of small Indigenous communities. Indigenous Peoples are not only entitled to their own media as per the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; they are also guaranteed “special measures” to access those rights in the Inter-American Convention and International Labor Organization Convention 169.