Law enforcement officers use excessive force on Indigenous communities that protest for their rights. On Friday, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) informed that the Maya, Xinka, Garifuna, and Afro-descendant peoples of Guatemala continue to suffer discrimination and violence and lack sufficient guarantees to protect their rights. RELATED: Guatemala Denounces […]

The ‘people’s diplomacy’ is confronting oil exploration and corporate-based solutions. The United Nations Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, was more than another international meeting. It was a stage for a fundamental power struggle over who gets to control the global response to the climate crisis. RELATED: COP30: Brazil Insists on Reducing Fossil Fuel Consumption […]

Over 70,000 people took to the streets of Belém, Brazil, this Saturday for the Global Climate March, the main event of the People’s Summit—an autonomous initiative organized by more than 1,100 social movements as a counterpoint to the closed-door negotiations of COP30. RELATED: Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Protest at COP30 Under the slogan “We Are the […]

They accuse Attorney General Porras and Judge Orellana of performing a ‘technical coup d’état.’ On Monday, representatives of more than 70 Indigenous territories in Guatemala demanded the withdrawal of immunity from Attorney General Consuelo Porras and Judge Fredy Orellana. They accuse them of promoting a “judicial dictatorship” and undermining democracy in the country. RELATED: DR: […]

The demonstrators continue to demand an end to the repression and a concrete response to their demands, including the restitution of the diesel subsidy and respect for the right to protest.

State repression has left three protesters dead, in addition to 282 injured, 172 arrested and 15 temporarily disappeared, according to the Alliance of Human Rights Organizations.