Tag: Guatemala
Webinar: The hidden side of conservation: voices from the ground.
Wildlife and forest conservation policies violate the basic rights of local and indigenous communities that inhabit protected areas, in addition to displacing them and criminalizing their struggles in the name …
Hudbay Minerals on trial in Canada for Human Rights Violations in Guatemala
By Leah Temper. Are companies liable in their home countries for violations committed abroad? Are they liable anywhere? This has been the leading question in environmental justice law jurisprudence this year. …
Massacre in Totonicapán, Guatemala
Seven were killed and some 40 wounded on Oct. 4 when security forces attacked a protest road blockade by Maya indigenous campesinos in Guatemala’s highland department of Totonicapán. Protesters were blocking …
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