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> Guatemala has the most unequal land distribution in the Western Hemisphere, with large landholders who comprise only 2% of the population possessing 70% of the productive lands. > Attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala increased between 2004 and 2005. In 2005, El Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos documented 224 attacks against human rights defenders, in comparison with 122 attacks in 2004. > On March 30, 2006, the 11th anniversary of the signing of the indigenous accord, tens of thousands of workers, farmers and indigenous people marched in Guatemala City to demand the strengthening of indigenous rights, restriction of open pit mining licenses, and funds for the Ministry of Agriculture to purchase land for redistribution. |
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printer-friendly Our Accomplishments
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Click here to review NISGUA's 2007 ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Overall Accomplishments
- Through annual fall tours of Guatemalan grassroots leaders, justice advocates, and human rights defenders, NISGUA has raised and contributed nearly $325,000 to organizations struggling for justice in Guatemala since 1987.
- Responding to a request from massacre survivors, in 2000 NISGUA began
expanding our accompaniment work to cover nearly 20 communities of
survivors and eyewitnesses who risk their lives by charging former
Guatemalan dictators with genocide, crimes against humanity, and war
crimes.From 1991 to 2006, NISGUA successfully pressured Congress to maintain a ban
that prohibits Guatemala from receiving international military education
and training (IMET) from the U.S. In 2002, Congress lifted a similar ban
against Indonesia – the only other non-"rogue" nation against which the ban
had been placed.
- In 2000, when the UN threatened to pull its human rights monitoring mission
out of Guatemala, NISGUA accompaniment volunteers gathered testimonies
from rural communities affected by political violence. These declarations,
which NISGUA submitted to the UN, attested to the communities’ profound
desire for a continued UN presence. As a result of our efforts, along with
those of our colleagues, the UN’s mandate was extended for an additional
three years.
- NISGUA provided emergency evacuation support
as well as temporary resettlement assistance
to individuals and families threatened due
to their participation in sensitive human rights
(Mack case, 2002) and labor cases (SITRABI,
2001).
- Guatemala Accompaniment Project staff have trained and placed more than 145 human rights monitors in returned refugee and internally displaced communities, with human rights organizations, and with genocide survivors since the project first began in 1995.
- From 1991 to 2006, NISGUA successfully pressured Congress to maintain a ban that prohibits Guatemala from receiving international military education and training (IMET) from the U.S. In 2002, Congress lifted a similar ban against Indonesia – the only other non-"rogue" nation against which the ban had been placed.
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