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2007 has begun with a series of alarming attacks against Guatemalan human rights organizations. Send an email to the Guatemalan government today. more >>> | |
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Did You Know?
> 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-friendlyReach the Media
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Media Relations Guidelines
1. Learn to think like a reporter
- Understand what reporters find "newsworthy"
- Find the local angle
2. Make it easy for the reporters to get your side of the story
- Assume that reporters are busy or lazy or both
- Be available
- Make sure reporters know how to reach you
- Return calls promptly
- Be accurate and modest
- Be consistent
- Be sensitive to deadlines
3. Cultivate relationships with individual reporters
- Be friendly
- Be helpful
- Provide facts and contacts
- Provide ideas for stories
4. Be persistent without being a pest
- Even if the local paper ignored your last event, tell them about
your next one
- Let them know when they make mistakes but don't accuse them of malicious intent
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