Please consider forwarding the urgent action that the Guatemala Human Rights Commission set up for people to email President Pérez Molina and the Interior Minister asking for an investigation into the massacre and that it not be used to militarize the region. The action can be found at: http://org.salsalabs.com/o/2690/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14279 Indigenous [...]
Support the work of those working for sexual diversity and gender identity in Guatemala! Sign the urgent action TODAY!!
Needed: Immediate support for the security of Mr. Jorge López Sologaitoa, a noted human rights defender and director of OASIS, and for the security of participants in the XIII Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity Pride Parade that will be held this Saturday, June 29, beginning at 2 pm in Guatemala City, [...]
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6497/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=13678 Since Friday, March 15, human rights defender and member of the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango for the Defense of Natural Resources (ADH), Rubén Herrera, has been unjustly imprisoned for alleged crimes committed in relation to community resistance of the Cambalam hydroelectric dam, operated by Hidro Santa Cruz. Citing 12 [...]
UA 64/13 AI Index: AMR 34/002/2013 of 12 March 2013 Amnesty International GUATEMALA: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AT RISK Human rights defender and trade unionist Carlos Hernández was shot dead on 8 March in Chiquimula department, eastern Guatemala. He may have been targeted for his activism. Two other human rights defenders [...]
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/oxfam-very-concerned-about-violent-acts-in-guatemala TAKE ACTION! Oxfam is deeply concerned about the kidnapping and murder of a local leader who was abducted with three others following a community vote on a mining project owned by San Rafael, SA, a subsidiary of Canada’s Tahoe Resources. The four leaders were kidnapped on Sunday, March 17, [...]
Guatemala: Arrest of human rights defender Mr Rubén Herrera http://frontlinedefenders.org/node/22085 On 15 March 2013, Mr Rubén Herrera, human rights defender and coordinating member of Asamblea de Pueblos de Huehuetenango Por La Defensa del Territorio (Huehuetenango Villages Assembly for Land Defence ADH) was arrested. Rubén Herrera remains in detention, facing a [...]
Urgent! Please take action immediately and send a letter here. The Communities in Resistance of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc are under attack once again. As you read this, the communities in resistance to mining in San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc are holding their ground [...]
As you read this, the communities in resistance to mining in San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc are holding their ground at the roadblock they have maintained since March of this year as they are threatened by a large group of pro-mining provocateurs. Please contact the US Embassy in [...]
