Monthly information packets from PBI-Guatemala MIP 81 June 2010Our Monthly Information Package for June, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp).  MIP 80 May 2010Our Monthly Information Package for May, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp).  MIP 79 April 2010Our Monthly Information Package for April details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 79 April 2010 (pdf 364 KB)  MIP 78 March 2010Our Monthly Information Package fo March details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 78 March 2010 (pdf 184 KB)  MIP 77 February 2010IMPUNITY - MSICG report reveals murders of 42 journalists in the past two years - Former kaibiles instructor linked to Las Dos Erres massacre case - Commemoration of the Day of Dignity for Victims of the Armed Conflict - LAND - Campesino organisations demand speeding up of approval of Rural Development Law - Alta Vera Paz government mediating agent in agrarian tension - NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALISATION - Population of San Juan Sacatepéquez demands that popular consultations be binding - Vice-minister reports that popular consultation will be included in the new mining law. MIP 77 February 2010 (pdf 231 KB)  MIP 76 January 2010Our Monthly Information Package for December details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 76 January 2010 (pdf 130 KB)  MIP 75 December 2009Our Monthly Information Package for December details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 75 December 2009 (pdf 264 KB)  MIP 74 November 2009Our Monthly Information Package for November, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 74 November 2009 (pdf 162 KB)  MIP 73 October 2009Our Monthly Information Package for October, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 73 October 2009 (pdf 126 KB)  MIP 72 September 2009Our Monthly Information Package for September, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 72 September 2009 (pdf 184 KB)  MIP 71 August 2009Our Monthly Information Package for August, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 71 August 2009 (pdf 151 KB)  MIP 70 July 2009Our Monthly Information Package for July, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp).  MIP 69 June 2009Our Monthly Information Package for June, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp).  MIP 68 May 2009Our Monthly Information Package for May, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). Syndicated news from the Guatemalan press: IMPUNITY - Colonel involved in the assassination of Gerardi is murdered - Threat received by activists from SEDEM and UDEFEGUA - European Union Member States and Canada concerned for the deteriorating situation of violence and impunity - LAND - Agrarian Platform demands attention towards campesino communities to avoid a food crisis - 580 agrarian conflicts in Alta Verapaz - NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBALISATION - Drop in taxes collected in Central America - Communities from Huehuetenango monitor the effects of mining activity around the River Cuilco -Strategies of coercion and land usurpation by Montana Exploradora denounced in San Miguel Ixtahuacán  MIP 67 April 2009Our Monthly Information Package for February, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). Syndicated news from the Guatemalan press: MIP 67 April 2009 (pdf 395 KB)  MIP 66 March 2009Our Monthly Information Package for March, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). Syndicated news from the Guatemalan press: Advances: Creation of the Support Commissions of the International Comission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and the declassification of the miltary archives - Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH) lays bare the repression of now-defunct National Police (PN) - Gladys Monterroso, wife of the Human Rights Ombudsman, is kidnapped and tortured the day after the report “The Right to Know” is published - Social Organisations and Campesinos: Integral agrarian reform cannot be postponed a second longer - The results of the popular consultation on mining in Santa Barbara, Huehuetenango, are handed to the authorities - Communities fail to receive multi-million mining profits - Four Years On: Negative Impacts of the Free Trade Treaty of Central America, the Dominican Republic, and the USA (DR-CAFTA). MIP 66 March 2009 (pdf 114 KB)  MIP 65 February 2009Our Monthly Information Package for February, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). Syndicated news from the Guatemalan press: IMPUNITY - Army’s failure to fulfil its obligation to open military archives is “disobedience” says civil society; US Department of State alludes to worrying situation of impunity in Guatemala LAND - One dead and three injured in violent eviction in San Miguel Tucurú, Alta Verapaz; Faltering progress in dialogue on rural and farming development between Government and indigenous and campesino organisations. GLOBALISATION - Congress passes reading of proposed law to suspend all mining exploration and exploitation licences; Residents of San Marcos reject proposed law exempting mining companies from tax liability. OTHER - Military to employ 2000 new soldiers and reopen five bases. MIP 65 February 2009 (pdf 130 KB)  MIP 64 January 2009Our Monthly Information Package for January, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp). MIP 64 January 2009 (pdf 118 KB)  MIP 63 December 2008Our Monthly Information Package for December, details the activities of PBI during the month (including all meetings with national authorities, civil society organisations and the diplomatic corp).
MIP 63 December 2008 (pdf 255 KB)  MIP 62 November 2008Congress of the Republic Approves 2009 State Budget and Solidarity Tax - Activist leader denounces armed attack - COPREDEH President’s house raided - Human Rights Ombudsman acts against Police director over passive and omissive attitude to violence - Death squads operating freely - Changes in production and land use provokes food insecurity - Disturbances and injuries follow highway blockades demanding land and agrarian reform - Platform promotes approval of Rural Development Law - Social organisations accuse the State over violation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples - More opposition to mining - Bidding for construction of hydroelectric project declared abortive - Maquilas (garment factories) violate women’s rights, says Human Rights Ombudsman. MIP 62 November 2008 (pdf 656 KB)  MIP 61 October 2008CELEBRATION OF THIRD 'SOCIAL FORUM OF THE AMERICAS' IN GUATEMALA CITY - Ministry of Defence refuses to turn over files to SEPAZ -Myrna Mack Foundation alledge "Cases of violence against justice officials are not investigated" - US to train kaibiles (Guatemalan Special Forces) for anti-terrorism - CALDH presents report: In 2007, 30% of violent deaths of youths were extra-judicial - Security Forces evict 200 Suchitepéquez families - Executive and social sectors achieve consensus on Rural Development Law - Catholic Church denounces Marlin Mine contamination in San Marcos - Huehuetenango residents reject mining licensing concessions. MIP 61 October 2008 (pdf 127 KB)  MIP 60 September 2008Organisations and government bodies condemn attempt against environmental activist - President denounces espionage and dismisses the heads of the SAAS and the SAE - The Women’s Sector denounces the failure to apply the Law Against Feminicide - According to the CNOC, three thousand families have been displaced in the Verapaces - Peasant organisations demand a dignified dialogue with the government - Residents of San Antonio Suchitepequez reject privatisation of water service MIP 60 September 2008 (pdf 264 KB)  MIP 59 August 2008Monthly Information Package covering the activities of PBI during August 2008. Current situation: Judge frees 43 detained during the State of Emergency declared in San Juan Sacatepéquez - National Civil Police arrest ex- member of congress for alleged links to murders of Salvadorian delegates - Organisations lobby for rights of indigenous communities draft law - Violent forced evictions from market are denounced in Coatepeque - Human Rights Ombudsman warns Government of food problems. MIP 59 August 2008 (pdf 218 KB)  MIP 58 July 2008CC upholds sentence for assassination of Bishop Juan Gerardi - Government will not extend State of Prevention in San Juan Sacatepéquez - New threats against Judge Eduardo Cojulún - Guatemala ratifies Protocol of Convention against Torture - First effects of DR-CAFTA begin to appear in agriculture - Rise in petroleum prices and growing popularity of biofuels spark increased demand for land  MIP 57 June 2008Notes on the current situation: Dialogue with the guatemalan authorities and the diplomatic corps - Army suspends annual 30 June march - CSJ reject legal action by Rios Montt - CONGCOOP propose expropriation of 18,000km of unused land  MIP 56 May 2008Notes on the current situation: - 162 women recorded dead in less than 4 months. - Organisations request PDH intervention on issue of adoptions. - Union member assassinated in Izabal. - Judge who attended the Spanish National Hearing on genocide denounced death threats. - Totonicapán inhabitants denounce deforestation before National Forest Institute. - San Marcos communities march and rally to reject mining activities.  MIP 55 April 2008Notes on the current situation: - Álvaro Ramazzini receives death threat. - Law against feminicide is approved by Congress. - Quiche´s Sentencing Tribunal convicts ex police officer Antonio Rutilo Matías López for rape. - Civil organisations condemn Guatemala´s failure in accomplishing CIDH resolutions ten years after Gerardi´s murder. MIP 55 April 2008 (pdf 308 KB)  MIP 54 March 2008Notes on the current situation: - Women demand legal framework to defend their rights. - First trial for forced disappearance. - President Colom says no to the death penalty in Guatemala. - State Violence against ‘terrorist’ campesinos. - US deports Guatemalan migrants. MIP 54 March 2008 (pdf 212 KB)  MIP 53 Febuary 2008Peace Brigades International - Monthly Information Package 2008 MIP 53 Febuary 2008 (pdf 208 KB)  MIP 52 January 2008Notes on the current situation: - Spanish judge asks for international cooperation in the investigation into genocide in Guatemala. - Campesino Organisations demand resolutions to agrarian debt and violent evictions. - US deports 346 Guatemalan migrants. MIP 52 January 2008 (pdf 125 KB)  MIP 51 December 2007Peace Brigades International - Monthly Information Package 2007 MIP 51 December 2007 (pdf 167 KB)  MIP 50 November 2007PBI Monthly Information Package No. 50 - November 2007 MIP 50 November 2007 (pdf 151 KB)  MIP 49 October 2007No description provided MIP 49 October 2007 (pdf 151 KB)  MIP 48 September 2007No description provided MIP 48 September 2007 (pdf 205 KB)  MIP 47 August 2007No description provided MIP 47 August 2007 (pdf 158 KB)  MIP 46 July 2007No description provided  MIP 45 June 2007No description provided  MIP 44 May 2007No description provided  MIP 43 April 2007No description provided MIP 43 April 2007 (pdf 187 KB)  MIP 42 March 2007No description provided MIP 42 March 2007 (pdf 131 KB)  MIP 41 February 2007No description provided MIP 41 February 2007 (pdf 148 KB)  MIP 39 December 2006No description provided MIP 39 December 2006 (pdf 171 KB)  MIP 38 November 2006No description provided MIP 38 November 2006 (pdf 101 KB)  MIP 37 October 2006No description provided MIP 37 October 2006 (pdf 96 KB)  MIP 36 September 2006No description provided MIP 36 September 2006 (pdf 137 KB)  MIP 35 August 2006No description provided MIP 35 August 2006 (pdf 259 KB)  MIP 34 July 2006No description provided  MIP 33 June 2006No description provided  MIP 32 May 2006No description provided  MIP 31 April 2006No description provided MIP 31 April 2006 (pdf 156 KB) |
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