Female indigenous activism in Guatemala: inspiration and challenges for women and girls as agents of change
Part two of two Roslynn Beighton is a former communications intern at MRG and now works for Fern, an organization…
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Female indigenous activism in Guatemala: inspiration and challenges for women and girls as agents of change
Part one of two Roslynn Beighton is a former communications intern at MRG and now works for Fern, an organization…
Belize: Advocating Maya people’s rights to land
In 2004, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a report recognising Maya people’s collective rights to land traditionally…
UPDATE 27 JUNE 2016 – Case against Santa Cruz 13 Discontinued…Prosecution of Maya in Belize ‘politically motivated’ and evidence of inequality before the law, says MRG
UPDATE 27 JUNE 2016 – Case against Santa Cruz 13 Discontinued This morning the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) discontinued the…
US energy company must suspend oil exploration until government of Belize obtains free, prior and informed consent of Toledo’s Maya and Garifuna peoples, says new report
US Capital Energy Belize, Ltd must suspend its oil exploration immediately in Toledo, and resume activities only if the Belizean…
MRG welcomes Supreme Court decision upholding Maya land rights in Belize, but deplores Government decision to appeal
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) welcomes a 28 June ruling by the Supreme Court of Belize upholding Maya rights over…
The Truth Commission in Guatemala
By Helen Collinson The report of Guatemala’s official truth commission was widely expected to lack punch. Set up under the…
We Have Always Lived Here: The Maya of Guatemala
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