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Apr 11, 2010
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GHRC hosts lawyer, activist, and author Jennifer Harbury for an exciting evening in Washington, D.C. Come and hear the most recent updates on the case of her husband, Everardo Bámaca.
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Mar 2, 2011
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Community members from Livingston speak out against the recent massacre of four young q'eqchi' leaders.
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Mar 30, 2011
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On March 18, 2011, representatives of the community and cooperative of
Santa Maria Tzejá filed a complaint with the Public Ministry in Playa
Grande, Ixcán, regarding the unlawful search of cooperative property by
a Guatemalan military unit on March 5. Military presence in the
community has been noted during at least two occasions during recent
weeks, coinciding with the season of commemorations for the massacres
committed by the Guatemalan military in the Ixcán in 1982.
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Mar 31, 2011
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As Guatemalan political parties gear up for the 2011 presidential elections in September, human rights organizations are preparing for some of the most important war crimes trials in the country’s history. With a leading presidential candidate linked to one of the nation’s most high-profile and controversial human rights cases, the way events play out in the next six months will be indicative of Guatemala’s ability to confront the entrenched impunity from the internal conflict.
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Feb 14, 2012
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Contact your Representative and ask to them to attend GHRC’s Congressional Briefing: Threats to Justice and a Return to Military Rule in Guatemala.
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Mar 21, 2012
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Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries were sentenced Tuesday to a total of 7,710 years in jail each for their participation in the 1982 massacre of Achi Maya Indians in Plan de Sanchez, Guatemala.
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May 22, 2012
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In 1982, the Guatemalan military attacked a tiny village called Dos Erres. They wiped it off the map, killing about 250 people. Thirty years later, a Guatemalan immigrant in Massachusetts got a phone call. He had never heard of Dos Erres. But the woman on the phone told him that two boys had survived the massacre — and he was one of them.
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Jan 12, 2013
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Twelve years ago, prosecutors accused Rosales of a lead role in the massacre of 250 men, women and children in the village of Dos Erres in 1982. It was one of the worst crimes in the history of the hemisphere: Rosales allegedly raped a young girl and helped oversee the slaughter by a 20-man unit that wiped out the hamlet, according to eyewitnesses and U.S. and Guatemalan court documents.
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Apr 9, 2013
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On Wednesday, April 10th, tens of thousands of community, labor and immigrant rights supporters will converge on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. The are gathering to urge Congress to pass common sense immigration reform NOW that includes a roadmap to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Apr 11, 2010 0GHRC hosts lawyer, activist, and author Jennifer Harbury for an exciting evening in Washington, D.C. Come and hear the most recent updates on the case of her husband, Everardo Bámaca.
May 22, 2012 0In 1982, the Guatemalan military attacked a tiny village called Dos Erres. They wiped it off the map, killing about 250 people. Thirty years later, a Guatemalan immigrant in Massachusetts got a phone call. He had never heard of Dos Erres. But the woman on the phone told him that two boys had survived the massacre — and he was one of them.
Jan 12, 2013 0Twelve years ago, prosecutors accused Rosales of a lead role in the massacre of 250 men, women and children in the village of Dos Erres in 1982. It was one of the worst crimes in the history of the hemisphere: Rosales allegedly raped a young girl and helped oversee the slaughter by a 20-man unit that wiped out the hamlet, according to eyewitnesses and U.S. and Guatemalan court documents.