We’ve extended the deadline for the BTS Community Development and Human Rights Cooperant Program! Deadline: April 4, 2019 @ midnight We invite people of all ages and backgrounds to apply for the BTS Community Development & Human Rights Cooperant Program! BTS seeks to create a team of 6-8 cooperants who will work in short-term human rights observation [...]
– Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970sIf you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
– Bishop Gerardi, April 24, 1998Peace is possible – a peace that is born from the truth that comes from each one of us and from all of us. It is a painful truth…it is a liberating and humanizing truth…It is a truth that challenges each one of us to recognize our individual and collective responsibility and to commit ourselves to action.
– Scott Zoltok, Intern at the New Hope Foundation (2012-2013)“Breaking the Silence means listening to those who’ve been silent for far too long, and once the silence is broken, it is amazing what you can hear.”
– Bertolt BrechtHay hombres que luchan un dia y son buenos. Hay otros que luchan un año y son mejores. Hay quienes luchan muchos años y son muy buenos. Pero hay los que luchan toda la vida: esos son los imprescindibles.
COMMENTARY: Maritime tour gives voice to abused Guatemalan girls who perished in fire
This article originally appeared in The Chronicle Herald here. On International Women’s Day 2017, and in the following days, 41 girls died in the aftermath of a fire while in state care at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asuncion in Guatemala. This month, they are being remembered throughout the Maritimes. At this year’s IWD [...]
Comunicado de prensa: Mayra Jiménez habla a través las provincias marítimas de Canadá sobre el incendio ocurrido en el Hogar Seguro en 2017 y sobre el movimento por la justicia de género en Guatemala.
6 de marzo de 2019 (Halifax) – Del 28 de febrero a el 9 de marzo, Mayra Jiménez del colectivo 8Tijax ofrece charlas en gira por las provincias marítimas de Canadá sobre la lucha en curso por buscar justicia de 41 niñas y jóvenes víctimas muertas en un incendio causado dentro de un hogar estatal [...]
Press release: Mayra Jimenez to speak throughout the Maritimes on the 2017 Hogar Seguro fire and the movement for gender justice in Guatemala
Photo: Art exhibit honouring the 41 victims of the 2017 Hogar Seguro fire currently at Glitter Bean Cafe in Halifax February 27, 2019 (Halifax) - From February 28 to March 9, Mayra Jimenez of the 8 Tijax collective will speak throughout the Maritimes about the ongoing struggle for justice for the 41 girls and young women killed in a [...]
Deadline extended: BTS Community Development & Human Rights Cooperant Program!
We’ve extended the deadline for the BTS Community Development and Human Rights Cooperant Program! Deadline: April 4, 2019 @ midnight We invite people of all ages and backgrounds to apply for the BTS Community Development & Human Rights Cooperant Program! BTS seeks to create a team of 6-8 cooperants who will work in short-term human rights observation [...]
