October 9, 2009
WOLA and other human rights organizations recently sent this letter (in Spanish only) to Guatemala's Attorney General calling upon him to investigate death threats against leading advocates for transitional justice and women's rights in Guatemala.
August 10, 2009
WOLA wrote the following letter to Guatemala's Attorney General Amílcar Velázquez Zárate in support of Raul Figueroa Sarti's appeal against a copyright infringement. Figueroa Sarti is the owner of F&G Editors, a publishing company that has published innumerable works on human rights in the country. WOLA fears the charges against Sarti are baseless and meant to be an ...
June 25, 2009
This report paints a portrait of the police in Central America today. It draws on interviews conducted by in-country experts with government officials, current and former police, representatives of international aid agencies, and civil society leaders in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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May 14, 2009
Eight US human rights groups wrote the following letter to Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom. The groups expressed profound concern about the series of death threats and reported surveillance by unidentified persons recently received by staff members of two prominent human rights organizations, Security in Democracy (SEDEM) and the Unit for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala ...
April 29, 2009
Four leading international organizations that work on Guatemala urged the Interior Minster to reverse his recent decision dismissing important human rights advisors. The advisors were responsible for two important institutions that had made real progress in investigating attacks against Guatemalan human rights defenders.
April 9, 2009
As the Obama Administration defines its Western Hemisphere policies, we believe that U.S. policy towards Guatemala should strengthen its focus on human rights. Particular attention should be paid to bringing the perpetrators of mass atrocities to justice, protecting human rights defenders, strengthening labor rights, and supporting the efforts of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) to investigate ...
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February 5, 2009
Declassification of military archives should be a priority for the new Minister of Defense in Guatemala, according to US human rights organizations. The group wrote the following letter to Major General Abraham Valenzuela González, urging him to address these past gross violations of human rights. They underscore that much of the continued lawlessness in Guatemala stems from the ...
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January 23, 2009
A group of US-based NGOs wrote the following letter to Attorney General Velásquez in Guatemala. The group expresses its worry about recent attacks and threats against human rights defenders including Fredy Armando Peccerelli of the Fundación de Antropología Forense Guatemala, (FAFG).
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January 13, 2009
A fascinating look at the advocacy campaign around the pioneering multilateral commission called CICIG.
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November 10, 2008
Activist and videographer Miguel Arturo Albizures Pedrosa became yet another human rights defender to fall victim of intimidations in Guatemala after filming a demonstration against government officials. On October 30, gunmen opened fire on his home, though luckily no one was hurt. Albizures is the Vice-President of Asociación COMUNICARTE, a media organization that has produced videos on human ...
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October 30, 2008
Pierre Frühling, development expert with extensive diplomatic and consulting experience in Central America, has recently released a report entitled: Violence, Judicial Corruption, and Fragile Democracies: Reflections on the current situation in Central America. It is currently available through its Guatemalan publisher, F&G Editores.
July 19, 2008
The Spanish National Court began hearing a second round of testimonies on May 26th, 2008 from the survivors of state violence in Guatemala. The following is a report on the hearings.
April 20, 2008
The shift toward Pentagon control over large areas of foreign assistance “will have a crucial bearing on how U.S. power is exercised and projected around the world,” says the new report.
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February 28, 2008
WOLA report on organized crime in Latin America from a rule of law and human rights perspective, with case studies from Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Peru.
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February 27, 2008
In response to recent threats against human rights defenders in Guatemala, WOLA and partner organizations, wrote to Guatemalan Attorney General to express their concern and urge the Attorney General to carry out prompt, comprehensive and impartial investigations into attacks against human rights defenders and prosecute those responsible.
February 20, 2008
A report on testimony from this month's trial on Guatemalan genocide in Spain's Audiencia Nacional.
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