... rights of the communities, especially the indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi ’and Garifuna.
Without higher crime rates Diálogos Guatemala, an organization that mainly carries out data analysis and investigations ...
... to the mine in 2005 by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM ) did not respect the due process of prior consultation of the affected indigenous peoples in four municipalities. Julio Gonzáles, representative ...
... with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at risk from Mining Pandemic Profiteers”. These trends pose an immediate threat to the health and safety of communities and organizations that have been ...
... Nickel Company) for breach of the Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples as stipulated by ILO Convention 169 [1]. In the middle of last year, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ...
... members of the MOVIAC. “We demand the approval of a Law for the Promotion of Agroecology, which ensures the conditions of access to land and other productive resources for rural and indigenous families, ...
... Latin America and around the world.
Indigenous people and affected communities face many reprisals for their resistance, including a mounting number of arbitration suits against their governments from ...
... constrained by lockdowns, arbitrary arrests, and other heavy-handed measures supposedly meant for containing the outbreak of the infectious disease.
On March 19, 2020, indigenous people leader Gloria ...
... There must be an advisory council made up of 14 people from the agro-industry, agricultural cooperatives, industrial sector, tourism, indigenous groups, students, and regional watershed committees. All ...
... as the main responsible for these actions. These human rights violations are a clear example of the widespread violence suffered by rights defenders, indigenous and social leaders, and small farmers in ...
... that a local indigenous community had not consented to the operation. The atlas uses information gathered from local communities to both raise the profile of their struggle and to connect disparate environmental ...