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Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj contributes to a report on criminalization in Guatemala

The Consejo del Pueblo Maya (CPO), a council to which the Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj belongs, has released a report on the criminalization of Mayan communities that are exercising the right...

Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj celebrate the release of indigenous leaders

Following months of mass mobilizations and international solidarity, the Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj (Council of Wuxhtaj Peoples) of Guatemala can finally celebrate...

ESCR-Net urges Members States of the OAS to resolve the severe financial crisis facing the IACHR

On 3 June 2016, the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) sent a letter to 34 presidents and prime ministers of Member States of the...

The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Costa Rica

On 27 and 28 April 2016, over 20 human rights experts - including individuals, representatives of human rights organizations, and members of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador and...

ESCR-Net members celebrate international day of struggle against dams

The movements of people affected by dams, includding several ESCR-Members, from different Latin-American countries call to organizations, networks, activists and social movements to sum to the mobilizations of the week of March 14...

Guatemala: “We are not criminals, we are defenders of the rivers and mountains”

TO: His Excellency Jimmy Morales, President of the Republic of Guatemala CC: Dr. Ranulfo Rafael Rojas Cetina, President of the Judiciary Ms. Thelma Aldana, Esq., Attorney General of the Public Ministry [1] Mr. Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Ms...

The Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders releases report on violence against women human rights defenders

On 7 October 2015, the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) held a launch, in Barcelona, for its recently-published 2012-2014 Regional Assessment Report on violence against women human rights defenders in...