Protect Human Rights in Guatemala

No one should suffer violence because of their struggle for justice. The survivors of Guatemala's genocide showed us incredible strength as they recounted the horrific violence they had witnessed against their families. Throughout the trial the survivors, along with their attorneys and the judges

Since Friday, March 15, Rubén Herrera, human rights defender and member of the Departmental Assembly of Huehuetenango for the Defense of Natural Resources (ADH), has been unjustly imprisoned for alleged crimes committed in relation to community resistance of the Cambalam hydroelectric dam, Santa

On June 13th of last year, Yolanda Oquelí was shot on her way home to her two young children. She was shot because she has led her community in peaceful resistance to a mine which an American company is trying to build in their midst. Fortunately, Yolanda survived, but she has lived with the

"We express ourselves through loving nature, loving life, loving humans, loving the past, loving the present, loving the future… I, like other comrades who suffer judicial persecution, try to defend humanity.  In it's entirety, not just the indigenous or garifuna but all human beings.  This is our