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Guatemala: In light of the presidential inauguration of Bernardo Arévalo, we urge to guarantee the transition of power and stop the criminalization of human rights defenders

With this letter, addressed to the President of Guatemala and the presidents of the Constitutional Court and the Congress of the Republic, we demand to guarantee the transition of power in the country and to end the instrumentalization of the judicial power to undermine democracy. ...

Dismantling the myths around restrictive fiscal policies in Latin America

In December 2019, The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) published a briefing entitled “Dismantling the Dogmas of Austerity and Fiscal Injustice in Latin America,” refuting 10 commonly held...

Indigenous communities demand reparations for human rights violations

Indigenous communities, including ESCR-Net member Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de las Víctimas de la Violencia en las Veraces, Maya Achi (ADIVIMA), have...

Global conversations to advance ESCR in conflict and post-conflict settings continue

Over the past year, ESCR-Net members have begun a global discussion about how to advance economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) in situations of conflict and occupation and in post-conflict transitions. A first round of online discussions was held between December 2017 and January

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Twenty-four years seeking justice for egregious rights violations caused by the Chixoy dam project

The Chixoy hydroelectric project, located in the Departments of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz in Guatemala, is responsible for massive human harms, according to ESCR-Net member...

Canadian court sends to trial Guatemalans’ lawsuit against a Vancouver mining company

Last week the Canadian Court of Appeal decided that the Canadian jurisdiction is the appropriate place for the lawsuit to be filed against the Canadian company, Tahoe Resources, for human rights violations that took place in Guatemala. The lawsuit was filed by seven...

Guatemala

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Guatemala: In light of the presidential inauguration of Bernardo Arévalo, we urge to guarantee the transition of power and stop the criminalization of human rights defenders

Dismantling the myths around restrictive fiscal policies in Latin America

Indigenous communities demand reparations for human rights violations

Global conversations to advance ESCR in conflict and post-conflict settings continue

Twenty-four years seeking justice for egregious rights violations caused by the Chixoy dam project

Canadian court sends to trial Guatemalans’ lawsuit against a Vancouver mining company

Guatemala: assassination of a leader opposing a hydro-electric project

Spanish hydropower company withdraws from Guatemala due to public pressure

Remembering those who could not come

New website on extractive industries in Latin America