UA: 261/11 Index: AMR 34/011/2011 Issue Date: 30 August 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 OCTOBER 2011. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

Staff at the Centre for Environmental, Social and Legal Action (Centro de Acción Legal, Ambiental y Social de Guatemala – CALAS) have received death threats. In recent months, CALAS have been promoting a public campaign against corruption and the building of a gas plant in a nature reserve. Their staff are all in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 57/11 Index: AMR 34/002/2011 Issue Date: 03 March 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 APRIL 2011 TO:
. Check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

On 28 February, protesters against the Marlin Mine in south-western Guatemala were attacked. One protester, Aniceto López, was taken to the office of the local mayor, where he was allegedly beaten and threatened with death for speaking out against the mine. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 39/11 Index: AMR 34/001/2011 Issue Date: 22 February 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 5 APRIL 2011 .
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

Three human rights defenders from a Maya Q´eqchi´ rural community were killed in Rio Dulce, Izabal, eastern Guatemala. The activists, all university students and campaigners for land rights, were found dead on 14 February. The rest of their community are in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 329/09 Index: AMR 34/014/2009

Trade unionist Jorge Chen Alvarez, an official in the National Health Workers' Union, has received a death threat believed to be connected to his work improving health care services for pregnant women and girls. [ Lire la suite » ]