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> Attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala have doubled over the last five years. NISGUA's teams of on-the-ground international human rights monitors work to deter violence in communities, courtrooms and at public events. > Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled during the bloodiest period of the war, currently holds a seat in the Guatemalan Congress. He is wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity. > The Xalalá hydro-electric dam is rejected by 90% of the local population because it would displace thousands of indigenous people and damage farmlands and forests. > Almost 400 mining concessions have been granted to transnational gold, silver, nickel, and zinc companies in Guatemala, posing severe threats to rural communities' social and environmental well-being. |
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Join the Guatemala Accompaniment Project
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Introduction to G.A.P.
NISGUA’s Guatemala Accompaniment Project (G.A.P.) participates in
the global struggle to ensure the respect of human rights by placing
volunteers side-by-side with individuals, communities and organizations
working
on sensitive issues ranging from precedent-setting legal cases to
indigenous rights and environmental justice. In communities,
courtrooms and public activities, G.A.P.'s presence in Guatemala has
created the space for Guatemalans to
organize in defense of their own rights by enabling activists to
advance their work more
publically and effectively than they could without accompaniment.
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Statement of Purpose and Guiding
Principles
G.A.P. provides, when requested, international human rights
accompaniers for
Guatemalan communities, individuals, and grassroots organizations that
work nonviolently
to achieve social justice, respect for human rights, and peace.
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Become a Human Rights Accompanier in
Guatemala
Sound interesting? Become a human rights accompanier in Guatemala!
Accompaniers
act as human rights observers who provide a constant international
presence to
Guatemalan activists. G.A.P. is always looking for qualified candidates
to be accompaniers.
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The People We Accompany
We accompany individuals, communities, and organizations
working
on sensitive human rights issues, including witnesses involved in
ground-breaking legal cases and grassroots groups opposing harmful
mega-"development" projects on their lands.
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Local Sponsoring Communities
Sponsoring Communities provide the resources and energy for ongoing
accompaniment
to be possible in Guatemala. Their long-term commitment to human
rights, accompaniment
and maintaining a relationship with a sister community in Guatemala is
a key
element to the sustainability of G.A.P. and the ten plus years of
accompaniment we
have been able to provide in Guatemala.
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more. . .
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Accomplishments
Guatemala Accompaniment Project (G.A.P) staff has trained and placed
more than 145 human rights monitors in returned refugee and internally
displaced communities,
with human rights organizations, genocide survivors and activists since
the project began in 1995.
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G.A.P. Calendar
Learn about upcoming training dates, important application deadlines
and G.A.P.
events.
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more. . .
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Contact G.A.P.
Questions? Interested in learning more? Call or email our U.S. Program
Coordinator.
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