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20 January 2017
Date: 18 January 2017
Source: Telesur
A peaceful demonstrator was shot dead during a protest in an Indigenous community.
An activist was killed Tuesday in Guatemala during a clash between protesters and police at a demonstration led by Indigenous community members who oppose the construction…
GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 12, 2011 (IPS) - The violent eviction of 91 rural families in northern Guatemala was the latest incident in the ageold conflict over land in a country where the army is frequently called in to force peasant farmers off their land.
"This has been the government with the most…
Mujeres Ixil Maya escuchan el histórico juicio contra el dictador guatemalteco José Efraín Ríos Montt
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El caso de Sudáfrica
Después de casi medio siglo de vigencia, en 1994 se derribó el aparato jurídico que le daba sustento a las prácticas racistas del apartheid en Sudáfrica. El proceso…
Success is rare among indigenous peoples' struggles for land rights in Guatemala. But the nearly 300 Poqomchi' Maya families that make up the Primavera communities in the department of Alta Verapaz have just won a significant victory.
On July 14, community representatives and the Guatemalan Land…
l Comité de Desarrollo Campesino –CODECA-, manifiesta su rechazo a la persecución, criminalización y asesinatos que siguen ocasionando las empresas transnacionales, bajo el gravamen del gobierno de Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, un ejemplo de ello lo que están realizando las empresas …
Research shows that indigenous peoples and communities manage their forests and other ecosystems well if they have secure rights over their land. Because healthy ecosystems deliver a whole suite of services — from timber to nonforest products to carbon mitigation — it’s in the broadest public…
By: Jeff Abbott
Date: January 29th 2016
Source: Upsidedown World
Family, friends and supporters of Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez, two political prisoners who had been falsely accused of femicide, kidnapping, and murder, received some joyous news on January 14, 2016. As Guatemala followed the…
By: Jeff Abbott
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: Upsidedownworld.org
In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February 8…
By: Pambana Bassett
Date: March 5th 2016
Source: Amandela
The concerns about the massive land grab of Belize, whether it be up to the Sibun River, or the entire 8,867 square miles of land in addition to sea territory, are serious. The oligarchy of Guatemala has made a habit of usurping land from…
Las “Directrices voluntarias sobre la gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria nacional (DVGT)” promueven la gobernanza responsable de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques con respecto a todas las formas de tenencia: pública…
By: teleSUR / md-CM
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
Jesus Alvarez was one of the 15,000 indigenous people who participated in the March for Water that ended Friday in the country's capital.
A prominent indigenous leader died after a 10-day march across the country demanding access to…
26 de abril
Panajachel, Guatemala. Durante los días 18, 19 y 20 de abril, se realizó el Encuentro Internacional "Juventudes Rurales, Tierra y Territorios" organizado por la Plataforma del International Land Coalition - América Latina y el Caribe (ILC ALC) y la Corporación PROCASUR, en…