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GUATEMALA
Community defense struggles
- Hudbay Minerals lawsuits: Aftermath of settlement of landmark lawsuits
- Ancestral Council of Q’eqchi’ Peoples: Land and rights defenders resisting mining operation of Swiss-based Solway Investment Group and recently incorporated U.S.-based Fenix Mining Company
- 54 Q’eqchi’ communities of Rio Dulce resistance to Montreal-based Central America Nickel company, a “new player on the block”
- CODIDENA: Xinka and campesino communities resisting Canadian company Pan American Silver (formerly Tahoe Resources)
- La Puya encampment: Resisting mining interests of KCA (Kappes Cassiday & Associates) that is trying to force through a “community consultation” while simultaneously suing (extorting) the Guatemalan government for $400 million in “lost potential earnings” through so-called “international dispute resolution tribunals” based in the World Bank
Rabinal Maya Achi Legal Clinic
Legal work on Maya Achi women’s sexual assault and slavery case dating from U.S. and Western-backed genocides and repression of the 1970s-80s
FAMDEGUA (Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared)
Fighting multiple cases for crimes against humanity from years of U.S.-backed genocides and repression, 1970s-80s
Community Development Projects
- Rio Negro community museum in village destroyed by massacres in 1980s to make way for Chixoy dam project of World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank in partnership with genocidal regimes of generals Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt
- ACPC (Association of Community Production): Xesiguan watershed defense, agro-ecology project in Achi villages of Rabinal
Emergencies
- Carlos Chen: health support, survivor of Rio Negro/Chixoy dam massacres in 1982
- Refugee support: Judicial system workers forced into exile; children of Rio Negro massacre survivors, forced to migrate
Truth, Memory
- Commemorations: four 1982 Rio Negro/Chixoy dam massacres
Investigation, Reporting
- Carlos Ernesto, Q’eqchi’ community journalist
“Action is the mother of hope”
“Accion es la madre de la esperanza”
Pablo Neruda
HONDURAS
- Bajo Aguan land and rights defense: Support, in collaboration with HSN, for community defenders devastated by violence and corruption of African palm exporters, mining, narco-traffickers
- Berta Caceres family: Security for Berta’s mother; struggle for justice for March 2, 2016 assassination of Berta and attempted killing of Gustavo Castro
OTHER COUNTRIES
- Argentina: Committee to Free Milagro Sala and other political prisoners
- El Salvador: Herbert Anaya Sanabria Human Rights Collective
- Mexico: Ojala on-line news about human rights and politics in Latin America
EDUCATION
- Human rights education delegations: UNBC-Rights Action May 2025, “Geographies of Culture, Rights & Power: The Global Order, Injustice and Resistance in Guatemala”
- Work with media, professors and educators investigating and reporting on issues Rights Action addresses
- Participation in education/activist forums in U.S. and Canada
- Regular publishing via listserv, newsletter and social media
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