On April 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “For #WaterDay yesterday PBI accompanies the Indigenous Community of San Francisco Quezaltepeque and the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa in their night walk. Among other things, the communities thanked Mother Earth for the water. In addition, they declared the area of the source of Read more…
Photo of Luis Pacheco by Emmanuel Andrés/Prensa Comunitaria. PBI-Guatemala has shared a statement/official communication from Indigenous and ancestral authorities of the original peoples of Guatemala that is a “condemnation and rejection of the criminalization, arrest of authorities and leaders who defended democracy.” The Associated Press reports: “Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday Read more…
On April 21, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today PBI accompanied the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula who filed a complaint for water pollution and forest damage against Ovidio Cardona, owner of a coffee company whose waste would affect several communities in the area, including sources of drinking water. In today’s Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “On Monday [April 14] PBI observed a hearing in the #MujeresAchí case. During the hearing, the procedural parties were given the opportunity to present new evidence before beginning with the conclusions. The defense requested the incorporation of new evidence that sought to point out the invalidity of Read more…
On April 10, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today PBI observes a hearing in the Molina Theissen case in the First Room of the Court of Appeals. Tried the review of coercion measures requested by Hugo Ramiro Zaldaña Rojas, sentenced in this case for crimes of duties against humanity, forced disappearance of Marco Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “On Tuesday, April 1, #PBI accompanies Famdegua Guatemala to a public hearing at the Chamber of Amparos and Preliminary Proceedings of the Supreme Court of Justice in the #MilitaryDiary case. During the hearing, the adhesive plaintiffs, survivors and relatives of the victims, asked the Court to declare Read more…
The Mutual Support Group (GAM) has posted on Facebook: “We remember the painful loss of Maria del Rosario Godoy Aldana de Cuevas, co-founder of GAM in 1984, in times of the Internal Armed Conflict-CAI. Like many other people at that time, she was looking for her husband Carlos Ernesto Cuevas Read more…
On March 22, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today, on the #WorldWaterDay #PBI accompanies to the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu in their activities to vindicate their fight for vital liquid.” The Oxford Human Rights Hub has explained: “Guatemala’s constitution has several provisions that provide for or implicate the right to clean and Read more…
On March 8, PBI-Guatemala posted on Facebook: “Today, #PBI observes the march for the commemoration of #InternationalWomen’sDay. Different women’s groups showed their rejection and repudiation of hatred, discrimination, persecution, violence and decisions that violate the human rights of girls, adolescents, women and the LGBTIQ+ community. They also demanded the fulfillment Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “Today #PBI accompanies the women of the Peaceful Resistance of the Poqomam People in their stand-off/sit-in against the sand mills operating in #Chinautla. Extractive activity causes earth movements, health problems and is killing white mud, one of the raw materials and livelihoods of women potters.” PBI-Guatemala has Read more…