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Links to Other Important Sites on Guatemala and Human RightsEl Movimiento - Picking up the Pieces - (versión nueva en español) - Photo Essay by Klaus Schoenwiese - Excellent photographs and wonderful and stories of Mayan survivors of years of oppression in Guatemala.
Poverty Relief, Human Rights and
Peace: Links New
Book: Silence on the Mountain, by Daniel Wilkinson. Wonderful photos.
Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully
plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala?s thirty-six-year internal
war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority
of whom died (or were "disappeared") at the hands of the U.S.-backed
military government. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - the Historical Clarification Commission has indicated that 7% of the victims of the repression and civil war were children. This site includes a database of missing children from all over the world. Includes an online photo search. Plataforma Contra la Impunitat a Guatemala - We are a platform of 28 NGOs in Catalunya Spain which support the legal proceedings against Guatemalan officials presented here in Spain By Rigoberta Menchu and others. Americas.Org - Resource Center of the Americas - Minneapolis based group - great resource for Human Rights and other news, discussions, etc. in the Americas, including section on Guatemala . http://www.americas.org/Guatemala has links to online news on Guatemala from dozens of organizations. Guatemala Connection ...Face to Face - Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago - Jack Houston, retired Chicago Tribune reporter and editor, and his wife Joy, in an accompaniment project between a Guatemala Presbyterian-run colegio in Coatepeque and Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. End of the Innocence: The 1954 CIA Coup in Guatemala - It is a research paper writen by Mike Lehman on the CIA's involvement in the 1954 coup. References and access easy for a number of relevant declassified CIA source documents. Mike Lehman is a political activist who did quite a bit of work in the 1980s on Central American issues. EPICA - The Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA) is a nonprofit, faith-based organization in solidarity with the poor of Central America, Mexico & the Caribbean. EPICA has been a voice of solidarity and partner for grassroots organizations and churches in the Americas for more than 30 years, combining critical social analysis, theological reflection and action for justice. Witness For Peace- We are people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. Our mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing US policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. We stand with people who seek justice. The Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN-N.Y.) is a non-profit immigration and human rights organization serving the refugee community on Long Island and throughout southern New York State. the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Includes: Data on Human Rights Violations in Guatemala, Guatemala: Memoria del Silencio by the Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification, Guatemalan Death Squad Dossier, International Center for Human Rights Research Reports & Data, Organizing and Repression in the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996, by Paul Kobrak, State Violence in Guatemala: A Quantitative Reflection by Patrick Ball, Paul Kobrak, and Herbert F. Spirer. National Security Archive Guatemala Documentation Project- Includes: The Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal - Archive releases comprehensive report and database on Guatemalan security forces ; Colonel Byron Disrael Lima Estrada - Biographic reporting on the alleged mastermind behind the murder of Bishop Juán Gerardi ; Guatemalan "Death Squad Dossier" - Guatemalan army log reveals the fate of scores of Guatemalan citizens who were "disappeared" by security forces during the mid-1980s ; CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents - Documents reveal CIA role in the toppling of President Arbenz, and plans for assassination of Guatemalan leftists ; U.S. Policy in Guatemala, 1963-1993 MINUGUA
- United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala GUATEMALAN DEATH SQUAD DOSSIER: Internal Military Log Reveals Fate of 183 "Disappeared" - National Security Archive CIIDH Data and Reports on-line - the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has tools to generate charts, reports, queries, etc. regarding human rights abuses in Guatemala. The huge database of information was requested to be put on-line by CONADEHGUA, a group of grass-roots human rights organizations in Guatemala. AAAS Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet - the American Association for the Advancement of Science contains a huge database of Human Rights information as well as on-line tools for queries. Data can be obtained in the form of reports, charts, diagrams, etc. Los Acuerdos de Paz - The Peace Accords between the Guatemalan government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) Archbishops Office of Guatemala - (English/Spanish) At the center of the human rights struggle in Guatemala, the Archbishop's Office on Human Righs in Guatemala produced the REHMI report (Recovery of the Historical Memory), for which Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedera lost his life on April 26, 1998. Amnesty International USA - Currently showing daily coverage of mass grave exhumations taking place in Guatemala beginning Friday, December 12, 1997 NISGUA- Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala - NISGUA works to: provide moral and material support to grassroots movements; reorient US policy towards Guatemala; build support in the United States for the ongoing peace negotiations to end Guatemala's civil war; and educate the US public about the current situation in Guatemala. School of the Americas Watch - The US Army School of the Americas, based in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains Latin American soldiers in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics. Graduates of the School of Assassins have been responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights : Guatemala - explores issues of democracy, human rights, and environmental quality in the context of economic integration in North America and the hemisphere. Excelent treatment of human rights issues with current news updates, Guatemala history, photo essays, etc. Guatemala Watch of Vermont was formed by concerned Vermonters as a support group of The International Mayan League/USA. Our purpose is to further the educational mission of the League by making presentations in schools of all levels, churches, and other venues; distributing publications, videos and audiotapes; convening conferences and workshops; and engaging in accompaniment and other projects. Declassified Documents - Northwestern University Library- Access an index and abstracts of more than 70,000 declassified documents from the CIA, Department of State, National Security Council, Department of Defense, FBI, and other government departments and agencies, all made available by The Library of Congress and the Presidential Libraries. Archivo Historico Guatemala - (Spanish) - CIRMA (Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica_ - Includes Code of the Child, U.N. Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Law of the National Civil Police, and many more. The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA - a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization created for the purpose of informing the public about human rights issues in Guatemala and advocating the end of repression and persecution of the Guatemalan people. United Nations Offices in Guatemala - A wealth of information concering U.N. work in Guatemala. Revista Pulso Nacional - El Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Económicos y Sociales - IPES - Se aborda con especialidad el desenvolvimiento del proceso de paz y del entorno político guatemalteco. Pulso Nacional es el producto de un seguimiento detenido y exhaustivo que IPES da al acontecer nacional en base a una matriz que incluye las vetas mas importantes de los ámbitos políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales del país. TASSC International- Torture Abolition and Survivors' Support Coalition - a coalition of torture survivors, currently representing more than 40 countries and ethnic groups. Goal: provide a safe forum for survivors not only to speak out about torture, but to begin to rebuild a trust in one another, in the community, and in the human family as well. Casa Guatemala - Not-for-Profit community organization based in Chicago, serving the Guatemalan community and Latin American community as a whole. Related works: Guatemala Radio Project, Guatemala Student Initiative, Chicago Maya League. Guatemala Radio Project - The Guatemalan Radio Project was created with the purpose of informing the North American public of the current situation in Guatemala. The Radio Project's main emphasis is on situations that have relevance and that directly affect our lives here in the US. Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM) - Organization of families and friends of the detained and disappeared. Deep history of struggle for human rights and against impunity. Centro de Estudios de Guatemala - Electronic publications: "Guatemala Hoy" and "La Semana en Guatemala", as well as other documents on Human Rights in Guatemala. Human rights in Guatemala by the Equipo Nizkor - Wonderful links in Spanish and English, including:
Report of the Intelligence Oversight Board: Guatemala / June 28, 1996 - The scope of this inquiry covers any existing intelligence bearing on the torture, disappearance, or death of US citizens in Guatemala since 1984. Defensoria Maya - (In Spanish) - Unidad de organizaciones mayas para generar acciones politicas, juridicas, legales, constitucionales, no solo ante el estado de Guatemala sino tambien en el are internacional. Jennifer Harbury / Efrain Bamaca, Dianna Ortiz (and other human rights cases in Guatemala)- Jennifer Harbury is a Harvard-educated lawyer whose three-year quest to find her Guatemalan husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, has revealed high-level involvement between the CIA and the Guatemalan military. The Italian Solidarity With the People of Guatemala - Great resources and links. Talking About Development (Spanish and English) - An interview series where different professionals, politicians, grassroots activists, and others, talk about what is development and how their work fits in with the larger social, political, and economic framework of the world we live in and the goals they seek. Conferencia de Iglesias Evangelicas de Guatemala - Su misión, ha sido motivar a las iglesias evangélicas para asumir su papel profético n favor del pueblo frente a los sistemas totalitarios y erepresivos que han gobernado el país. Casa Alianza/ Covenant House Latin America - More than 5,000 children live on the streets of Guatemala City. Some are as young as seven. Most are addicted to glue or other poisonous solvent-based products. Many resort to petty robbery and prostitution to survive. Each year, scores of children are abused, tortured or killed by police or other authorities. Peace Brigades International - Guatemala - Provides international nonviolent peacekeeping in areas of violent repression and conflict, offers unarmed protective accompaniment to Guatemalan individuals, organizations and communities, reports on human rights and social justice issues in Guatemala. Los Cimientos - The Mayan Connection - The Mayan Connection-Los Cimientos Alliance is a cooperative partnership between people in the United States and the Maya K'iche people of Los Cimientos, Chajul, Quiche, Guatemala. Casa Xelajú (shay-la-hoo') is a socially-responsible educational institute in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala promoting cross-cultural understanding through its Spanish language and cultural programs, social projects, internship program, and travel services. Human Rights Server - Search server of links to Human Rights Organizations all over the world. Batey Relief Alliance - A humanitarian aid organization creating a productive and self-sufficient environment - through health care, legal aid, education, and empowerment programs - for impoverished populations, including those identified as migrant workers. Why not try a World Class search engine? |
