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Description: In Spanish. The Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN) is a Guatemalan repository that houses, preserves, processes, and disseminates the records of Guatemala’s National Police. The National Police collaborated with the state during Guatemala's 36-year armed internal conflict which, between 1960 and 1996, claimed 200,000 lives and displaced over one million people. The AHPN has formed a collaboration with University of Texas at Austin to make its records available online (https://ahpn.lib.utexas.edu/about_ahpn). The site contains organizational information, publications about the AHPN's materials, legislation concerning the AHPN, links for requesting information, digital photographs, and other links.
Captured 3 times between Oct 30, 2011 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--cultural repositories, armed conflict and persecution--genocide, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--displacement, armed conflict and persecution--war crimes, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--truth commissions
Description: In Spanish. Comunicarte is an organization that creates documentaries about human rights violations and daily life in Guatemala, with a particular focus on indigenous rights and indigenous struggles against corporate oppression. Site includes embedded videos and updates about projects.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--video advocacy, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--eyewitness documentation, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development
Description: In Spanish and K'iche'. All aspects of human rights promotion, focusing on providing legal aid and documenting the genocide perpetrated against the Mayan population of Guatemala during the 1980s. They are leading the most important collective effort to bring former dictators (one of them currently a senator) to trial before the Interamerican Human Rights Court. The security of their members is seriously compromised--the Guatemalan government and its military forces are not in favor of any kind of investigation into war crimes. Since 2004, year in which CALDH brough the cases against Rios Montt and García before the Interamerican Court, their offices have been subject to raids and their members have been kidnapped and received death threats.
Captured 11 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, civil and political rights--children's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--transitional jusice, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--courts and judicial systems--Inter-American Court of Human Rights, armed conflict and persecution--discrimination, ethnic and racial
Description: In Spanish. Contains art gallery related to the disappeared as well as a photo gallery of some of the disappeared. This organization is run as a collective and subsists solely on donations. It focuses on promoting human rights, justice and activities that denounce state violence in Guatemala. They are specially focused on activities with the youth. members of HIJOS are continuously subject to threats that they should cease their educational and legal activities denouncing state violence (especially the involvement of the military in Human Rights Violations). In June 2008, according to Protectionline - Observatorio para la Proteccion de los Defensores de DDHH, organization members received death threats. Threats come from unidentified persons who are believed to be linked with the military.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, armed conflict and persecution--genocide, armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In English. NISGUA is a U.S. based non-governmental organization that links people in the U.S. with the Guatemalan people and their grassroots struggles for justice, human rights, environmental protection, and dignity. The website includes coverage of news pertaining to Guatemala and Central America more generally, and information regarding campaigns on trade and development, impunity, land rights and militarization.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--land rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--mining
Description: In Spanish. Contains background information on human rights, ombudsman's functions and areas of work (protection of senior citizens, prisoners, women, workers, handicapped, children and youth, publications, immigrants, indigenous populations, the environment) and news.
Captured 8 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 2 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--organized crime, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--drug trafficking
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