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As of December 10, 2022, Rights Action sent $275,000 of your donations and grants to support human rights and justice struggles, land, territory and environmental defense struggles, and emergency response work, primarily in Honduras and Guatemala, as well as to two partner groups in El Salvador and a few other struggles in the Americas.
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Photo taken at La Puya mining resistance encampment,
Rights Action 'Testimonio' delegation to Guatemala, November 2022
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~ Guatemala ~
Maya Q’eqchi peoples resisting 57 years of mining violence & corruption
- Ancestral Council of Q’eqchi’ People and Union of Q’eqchi’ fisherpeople. Legal cases and lawful protests against illegal mining operation of Switzerland-based Solway Investment Group; supports for victims of mining company/government violence and criminalizations.
- El Estor Q’eqchi’ land defenders. Living needs of 13 plaintiffs in landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits in Canada, their families and communities – still suffering and harms from mining related violence in 2007, 2009, while participating in on-going resistance to mining today.
- Hudbay Minerals lawsuits. Legal and plaintiff-related expenses.
- Maria Cuc Choc. Family support and legal defense of this land and rights defender, on trial since 2018 for trumped up criminal charges.
- Rafael Maldonado. Legal expenses, defending crimninalized Q’eqchi’ land and rights defenders, jailed and on trial for trumped up criminal charges.
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German Chub and Angelica Choc, two of 13 plaintiffs in landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits in Canada,
Rights Action's 'Testimonio' delegation to Guatemala, November 2022
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Bufete de Rabinal (Legal aid clinic)
Maya Achi women’s sexual assault and slavery crimes against humanity case.
Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence network
Human rights accompaniment, Bufete de Rabinal’s women’s sexual assault and slavery case.
CODIDENA (Diocese Defense of Nature committee)
Xinka and campesino communities resisting manipulated consultation process spear-headed by Guatemalan government and Pan American Silver (formerly Tahoe Resource) mining company.
FAMDEGUA (Family Members of Disappeared)
Leading work on crimes against humanity and organized crime justice struggles.
Education – school fees & scholarships
- El Estor: School and college studies, families of Q’eqchi’ land/ human rights/ environmental defenders resisting 60 years of nickel mining companies.
- San Miguel Ixtahuacan: College studies and law degree, families of Mam community defenders who had been in resistance to Goldcorp’s gold mining operation.
Emergencies
- German Chub: health support, paralysis victim of mining repression.
- Refugee support: forced migrants, Achi people from Baja Verapaz.
Truth, Memory
- Commemoration: Achi victims of Feb.12, 1982, Xococ massacre, due to World Bank/IDB’s Chixoy dam investment project.
- Commemoration: Achi victims of Mar.13, 1982, Rio Negro massacre, due to World Bank/IDB’s Chixoy dam investment project.
Investigation, Reporting
- CIRMA, Center for Mesoamerican Research.
- Carlos Ernesto, Prensa Comunitaria: reporting on climate disasters, mining harms, community resistance struggles.
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~ Honduras ~
Azacualpa Environmental Committee
Resisting theft of coffins and cemetery desecration, and community destruction by Aura Minerals’ cyanide-leaching, open-pit gold mine.
Berta Caceres family
Family security for mother, participation in struggle for justice for assassination of her daughter and attempted killing of Gustavo Castro.
CInPH (Coordinadora Indígena del Poder Popular de Honduras)
Education and community mobilizing for transition to democracy.
Guapinol community
Resisting mining harms and corruption, working for freedom for jailed community members.
Honduras Now
Work of Karen Spring and colleagues, education and advocacy work for human rights, critically addressing impacts of U.S. and Canadian policies and neoliberalism.
Mujeres Ambientalistas Progresenas
Education and community mobilizing for transition to democracy.
OFRANEH Garifuna land and rights defense organization
Resisting violence and corruption of tourism industry and African palm exporters; work for truth and justice for July 18, 2020, disappearance of 4 community defenders.
PROHN-Net
Reporting on organized crime/ drug-trafficking trials against Honduran regime leaders.
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Alfredo Lopez, former political prisoner, speaking with Rights Action delegation, May 2013, in front of Garifuna lands illegally captured by powerful African palm producers. Alfredo continues to this day to receive death threats for his land and environmental defense work.
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~ Other Countries ~
- Argentina: Milagro Sala committee. Work to free Milagro Sala and other political prisoners of all trumped up criminal charges.
- Canada: Tiny House Warriors “our land is our home”. Struggle against “Coastal Gaslink” pipeline on territory of Wet’suwet’en Nation.
- El Salvador: Jocoaitique historic memory committee. Resisting government destruction of monument commemorating victims of 1981 U.S.-backed El Mozote massacre.
- El Salvador: Herbert Anaya Sanabria Collective. Demanding justice for victims of El Mozote massacre.
- Mexico: Pie de Pagina. On-line english news about human rights and politics in Mexico.
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Tax-Deductible Donations (Canada & U.S.)
To support land and environmental defenders, and human rights and justice struggles in Honduras and Guatemala, make check to "Rights Action" and mail to:
- U.S.: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
- Canada: Box 82552 RPO Corktown, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
Credit-Card Donations: https://rightsaction.org/donate/
Donations of securities in Canada and the U.S.? Write to: [email protected]
TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
https://www.testioniothebook.org
https://btlbooks.com/book/testimonio
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