Luz Haidee Mendez Calderon, Orencio Sosa Calderon, and Hector Rolando Valdez Guzmán were disappeared in Guatemala and are listed in the Military Diary. On September 18, the CBC reported about three women who moved to Canada after loved ones were disappeared by the Guatemalan military between 1983 and 1985 in Read more…
On September 17, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today we accompany the press conference that announced the negative response of the Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala to the appeal for cassation [annulment] raised by the defence of the criminalized defender Bernardo Caal Xol. The appeal sought a review of the legal process Read more…
On September 16, Peace Brigades International presented during the Interactive Dialogue with Fabian Salvioli, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition. You can watch the video of the presentation in Spanish here. You can also watch it with English interpretation here (starting at Read more…
On September 15, Domingo of the PBI-Guatemala accompanied Chicoyogüito Neighborhood Association of Alta Verapaz (AVECHAV) presented to 4th year students at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. The university is situated on the territory of the Indigenous WSANEC and Lkwungen peoples, whose relationships to the land continue to Read more…
On September 15, Kim-Mai Vu of Peace Brigades International presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council during the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. To watch her presentation in Spanish, please click here. You can also click here and Read more…
The Guapinol defenders (Honduras), Bernardo Caal Xol (Guatemala), Yuli Andrea Velázquez (Colombia), Samir Flores (Mexico). Canada does not have due diligence legislation in place that recognizes and addresses (through enforcement mechanisms and meaningful consequences) the dangers faced by human rights defenders (HRDs) who challenge the impacts of Canadian transnational corporations Read more…
On August 25, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanies CCDA Verapaz at a Mayan ceremony for all the attacks, threats and repression suffered by the ancestral authorities and defenders of the land.” The Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) accompanies 150 Maya Q’eqchi’ communities who have been repressed Read more…
On August 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today, PBI accompanied criminalized defender Bernardo Caal Xol at a hearing in Coban.” It adds: “In another trial he is accused of scamming the State of Guatemala for having received his salary as a teacher for a while in which he also exercised his duties Read more…
On August 10, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Yesterday, PBI accompanied members of the Verapaz Union of Campesino Organizations (UVOC) and the El Chico-La Primavera community, in a judicial recognition process conducted by the Public Ministry.” In 2013, UVOC lawyer Jorge Luis Morales commented: “The case of La Primavera is emblematic of the Read more…
On August 9, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the authorities of Olopa and Quezaltepeque in the commemoration of ancestors on the #InternationalDayofIndigenousPeople.” Prensa Comunitaria further reported: “Indigenous authorities of Quezaltepeque, Olopa, Camotán and Jocotán, in the department of Chiquimula, held a community assembly on the occasion of the International Day of Read more…