Press releases from Guatemala

Mesoamerican Registry of Attacks against Women Defenders: 2022 — Preliminary data

2022 leaves us with a balance of 4,803 attacks against women defenders, their organizations, and collective actions in defense of rights.  
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Mesoamerican Registry of Attacks against Women Defenders: July/August 2022 -- Preliminary monthly data

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[Urgent Alert] GUATEMALA / Government imposes state of siege in El Estor after repressing peaceful protest against illegal mining operation.

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[Urgent Alert] GUATEMALA / Judge orders trial to begin on November 8, 2021, for María Cuc Choc, criminalized since 2018 for defense of the land

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Unraveling the crisis - weaving futures

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[PRESS RELEASE] There is no gender equality without protection for women defenders.

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[STATEMENT] National, regional, and international human rights and feminist organizations call for solidarity with our allies from the Uganda Women's Network, "UWONET," and the Uganda National NGO Forum makes an urgent call to stop criminalizing and stigmatizing their work.

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[Urgent Alert] GUATEMALA / Suspension of hearing violates due process for K’iche Maya communicator Anastasia Mejía, who will remain in preventive detention for at least 20 more days.

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[Urgent Alert] MESOAMERICA / Regional governments send military troops and special forces to head off and disband the migrant caravan that left Honduras on September 30.

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[Urgent Alert] GUATEMALA / Without evidence or appearance of the accusing party, the defender María Cuc Choc was sent to trial, criminalized for defending the lands.

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[CAMPAIGN] “Their Lives are Our Lives”

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The crisis was already here: Mesoamerican WHRDs and COVID-19

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369 women defenders make connections to talk about life

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#UrgentAlert PHILLIPINES / Solidarity with Cristina Palabay, criminalized for defending Human Rights

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National and international organizations condemn the passage of the NGO Law and urge a presidential veto in order to guarantee basic rights.

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Three weeks of defender voices in policy decision spaces

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JOB POSITION / Finance Officer for IM-Defensoras

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IM-Defensoras Driving Group Meeting: Looking towards 2020

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UGANDA / Brutal attack against Mollie Siperia, student leader at Makerere University

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Concerns raised over Esraa Abdel Fattah’s state of health during prison hunger strike

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Stop the extermination of WHRDs and leaders in Colombia!

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Stop militarization and the repression of social protests in Chile!

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Stop the abduction and human right violations of Women Defenders in Egypt

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[STATEMENT] ¡Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders say NO to the attack against the Kurdish community!

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PARAGUAY / ANTI-RIGHTS GROUPS ATTACK MARCH HELD BY #LGBTI COLLECTIVES

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GUATEMALA / The defender Juana Ramírez is commemorated and justice is demanded for her femicide

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SOLIDARITY WITH FEMINISTS CRIMINALIZED for Anarchist Sisterhood’s Sacred Defiant Cunt and Burial of Socio-Labour Rights Procession in Spanish State

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We congratulate the FAU on its tenth anniversary

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Rebel Manifesto of Honduran Women (Pronouncement at 2019 Honduran Women’s Gathering)

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#WHRDAlert COLOMBIA / Assailants kill María del Pilar Hurtado, defender of the right to decent housing

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Stop the criminalization of WHRDs working with migrant people!

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ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF COLOMBIAN DEFENDER FRANCIA MÁRQUEZ, GOLDMAN PRIZE WINNER 2018

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Stand in solidaity with Nana Mwafrika Mbarikiwa, Ugandan #WHRD

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NASRIN SOTOUDEH: We demand her release!

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IM-Defensoras organizes Advocacy Week for Women Defenders at 40th Session of UN Human Rights Council

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We lament the death of WHRD Caroline Mwatha in Kenya, caused by structural violence against women

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#UrgentAlert GUATEMALA / Government announces immediate recision of accord signed with UN to create CICIG

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#UrgentAlert GUATEMALA / GOVERNMENT DECREES ILLEGAL EXPULSION OF 11 CICIG MEMBERS FROM COUNTRY

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IM-Defensoras Driving Group meets in Guatemala

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Human Rights Defenders World Summit 2018 - Pronouncement of Session on Women Human Rights Defenders

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IM-Defensoras and national networks meets with women defenders in Mesoamerica and Colombia

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GUATEMALA / People have the right to protest!

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IM-Defensoras participates in high-level events in New York on 20th anniversary of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

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Self-Care Gathering of Guatemalan Women Human Rights Defender Network

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International Feminist Solidarity Day with Nicaragua

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FREE THE DEFENDERS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO DRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA!

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Women of the Molina Theissen family win historic sentence in Guatemala

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Conclusion of European tour to present 2015-16 Assessment Report on Attacks against Women Defenders

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VIDEO / IM-DEFENSORAS CONDEMNS EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION OF MARIELLE FRANCO IN BRASIL

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Philippines government criminalizes UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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#WHRDAlert BRAZIL / Assailants kill Marielle Franco, feminist and defender of the rights of Afrodescendant peoples

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National Women Defenders Network in Guatemala grows and consolidates work in 14 areas of the country

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16 Days Campaign 2017 / IM-Defensoras calls for holistic feminist protection as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign

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#WHRDAlert CATALONIA / Repression of the right to self-determination of the Catalan people

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AWID: "Weaving resistance through action: Strategies of WHRDs confronting extractivism and corporate power"

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We thank organizations that made possible "Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land..."

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Time line

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Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land, Territory and Environment

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Declaration of organizations participating in the Latin American Gathering of Defenders and Authorities of the Original Peoples and Territories of Latin America

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Women defender networks meet at UN for first time to denounce violence and discrimination against women activists throughout the world

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NEWS / NETWORKS OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE PLANET GO TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS TO SHARE EXPERIENCES ABOUT PROTECTION WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

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Women human rights defenders gather in Guatemala

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SISTERHOOD / #WHRDAlert COLOMBIA: At least six women defenders have been killed in the last four months

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Berta didn’t die, she multiplied...

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NEWS / Meeting of IM-Defensoras Driving Group

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#WHRDAlert ECUADOR / Stop the repression against territorial defenders in Ecuador – Solidarity with Ecological Action

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IM-Defensoras Video: There's life!

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Invitation to virtual dialogue “Self-Care, a Political Strategy in Defense of Human Rights”

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IM-Defensoras In the Campaign for 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women 2016

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NEWS / IM-Defensoras co-organizes International Seminar “Weaving webs to protect women human rights defenders” to be held in the Spanish State

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SEPTEMBER 28th– INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION

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NEWS / IM-Defensoras at AWID FORUM 2016, Brasil

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OPEN LETTER / JUSTICE, a demand still alive six months after Berta Cáceres’ murder

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NEWS / IM-DEFENSORAS and national groups tell UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders about attacks and impunity faced by women defenders in Mesoamerica

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IM-Defensoras at Regional Dialogue‬ on "An Interchange of Good Practices: New challenges for the erradication of violence agaist women”

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UN Women and IM-Defensoras publish Spanish language edition of UN General Assembly Resolution on Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders and Individual Women’s Rights Defenders

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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012-2014 REPORT

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PAVING THE ROAD FOR FREEDOM & EQUALITY

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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012 ASSESSMENT REPORT - SUMMARY FINDINGS

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