Human Rights

Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. For biographical notes, see the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Guatemala Page: World Policy Institute, Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights -- Contains a human rights overview on Guatemala, truth commission reports, human rights atlas, and more.

Amnesty International: Guatemala (Reports and News) -- News and reports from 1996 to the present.

Belize-Guatemala Territorial Issue -- This master's thesis analyzes the land dispute between Belize and Guatemala, and includes a historical overview, twentieth century developments and discussion on present day independent Belize.

Centro de Estudios de Guatemala -- Source of news analysis relating to the continuing peace process in Guatemala. Contains links to the newspaper Guatemala Hoy; governmental sites; MINUGUA reports; and Guatemala: Memoria de Silence. In Spanish.

Equipo Nizkor Guatemala -- Non-governmental organization with links to human rights reports, reports by international bodies, articles on human rights in Guatemala; Guatemalan law and human rights actions pertaining to Guatemala.

Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala -- The Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala (Chicago) was created with a mission to educate, make known, monitor and be vigilant for the full respect of human rights. Their principal objective is to work for the complete fulfillment of the Global Accord on Human Rights, signed between the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unity (URNG) and the government of Guatemala. Another objective of FHRG is to help demolish the wall of impunity that continues to exist in Guatemala.

Guatemala: Memory of Silence (Spanish) --Complete report from the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission including conclusions and recommendations.

Guatemalan Human Rights Commission/USA --The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA is a non-profit, humanitarian organization founded to monitor, document and report on the human rights situation in Guatemala. GHRC/USA also promotes advocacy for and aid to victims of human rights violations in Guatemala.

Human Rights Organizations in Guatemala: General -- This is a list of Guatemalan organizations, with a brief description of each and links to further information. It is presented by Peace Brigades International (PBI), an organization offering unarmed international protective accompaniment to individuals, organizations, and communities threatened with violence and human rights abuses.

Human Rights Watch: Guatemala Reports --Human rights non-governmental organization. Included are Guatemala reports from the past few years and special reports that deal with issues specific to Guatemala

Jennifer Harbury Case --Links to the cases relating to Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, Sister Dianna Ortiz, archives, and CERIGUA Weekly briefs (1996-1999).

Latin American Working Group --The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Since 1983, the coalition has been striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region. LAWG provides information to nongovernmental organizations, congressional offices, the media, and citizens concerned with U.S. policy towards Latin America.

Naciones Unidas en Guatemala (Spanish) -- The United Nations in Guatemala accompanies and supports the national efforts directed to consolidate peace and to fulfill the objectives of the sustainable human development.

National Security Archives Electronic Briefing Book No. 4: CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents --These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA's covert "Operation PBSUCCESS," were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala.

National Security Archives Electronic Briefing Book No. 25: Colonel Byron Disrael Lima Estrada: Alleged Mastermind behind the Murder of Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi of Guatemala -- Declassified Records from the U.S. Department of Defense By Kate Doyle and Michael Evans February 14, 2000.

National Security Archives Electronic Briefing Book No. 15: GUATEMALAN DEATH SQUAD DOSSIER: Internal Military Log Reveals Fate of 183 "Disappeared" --The army log reveals the fate of scores of Guatemalan citizens who were "disappeared" by security forces during the mid-1980s. Replete with photos of 183 victims and coded references to their executions, the 54-page document was smuggled out of the Guatemalan army's intelligence files and provided to human rights advocates in February, just two days before a UN-sponsored truth commission released its report on the country's bloody 35-year civil war.

National Security Archives Electronic Briefing Book No. 32: The Guatemalan Military: What the US Files Reveal -- The declassified records offers a unique window into the country, the era, and the institutions involved. The documents illuminate details never before understood or known about some of the most important human rights cases, and at the same time help analysts of human rights, military or national security policy gain a more complete picture of the period under study.

National Security Electronic Briefing Book No. 11: U.S. POLICY IN GUATEMALA, 1966-1996 -- Invaluable collection of previously classified US foreign policy documents--secret cables, letters, and briefing papers from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, and State Department--offered in chronological order with annotations. Reveals extensive knowledge of human rights abuses in Guatemala.

NISGUA: Network in Solidarity with People of Guatemala --The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) was formed in 1981 to coordinate local activism on Guatemala in the United States. NISGUA is still one of the strongest and steadiest grassroots voices for responsible U.S. policy in the region.

Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala (ODHAG) -- The Office of Human Rights of the Archbishopric of Guatemala (ODHAG) defends poor people who cannot afford a lawyer when their human rights have been violated. In Spanish.

Peace Brigades International: Guatemala Project -- PBI maintained a team in Guatemala from 1983 to 1999. Its activities included offering an unarmed international presence to Guatemalan individuals, organizations and communities threatened with violence and human rights abuses.

Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation --In Guatemala, the Foundation carries out projects directed at education, health care, and human rights, with an emphasis on citizen's civil rights.

Stefan Schmitt's Human Rights and Forensic Anthropology --Schmitt is one of the founders of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Team - the Equipo(now: Fundación) de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (EAFG).

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) -- WOLA promotes human rights, demoocracy, and social and economic justice in Latin America by helping Latin American NGO's gain access to policy-making circles in Washington.