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Urgent Action Outcome: Congress Shelves Discriminatory Law
The Guatemalan Congress shelved Decree 18-2022, which would have toughened the criminalization of abortion.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Mar 2022 -
Americas: Health workers at 'horrendous risk' of COVID-19 as governments fail to offer protection to those on frontlineAmericas has more than 2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 - around half of all positive-tested cases globally
Press release 19 May 2020 -
Urgent Action update: Lawyer of Xinca people still under threat
Quelvin Jimenez reported that a group of people, carrying weapons, disrupted a meeting of the Xinca Indigenous people.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2019 -
US/Guatemala: 'dangerous' asylum agreement must be abandoned'Outrageous' to force peoples to seek safety in Guatemala
Press release 27 Jul 2019 -
Urgent Action: Lawyer of Xinca people under threat
Quelvin Jimenez received death threats and continues to be targeted with smear campaigns, intimidations, and surveillance
Urgent action outcomes 15 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: NGOs and human rights defenders at risk
Proposed legislative reform in Guatemala would impose undue restrictions, controls and sanctions on NGOs.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Mar 2019 -
Urgent Action: Bill could grant amnesty for grave crimes
Guatemala’s Congress could imminently pass a law that would grant an amnesty to those suspected or found guilty of crimes
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Legislators could pass a discriminatory law in Guatemala
Guatemala’s Congress is at the verge of passing a law to ban abortion, same-sex marriage and inclusive sex education.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Women human rights defender killed in Guatemala
Juana Raymundo is the 8th human rights defender killed in Guatemala in less than three months. She was 25 years old.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Two more land defenders killed in Guatemala
Human rights defenders Florencio Pérez Nájera and Alejandro Hernández García from CODECA were violently murdered.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jun 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Land defenders threatened and attacked in Guatemala
Human rights defender Ramon Choc died following a violent assault, and other defenders have been threatened.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jun 2018 -
Urgent Action: Three land defenders killed in Guatemala, others at risk
Three land and territory defenders from different communities in Guatemala were killed in less than a week.
Urgent action outcomes 21 May 2018 -
Urgent Action: Family seeking asylum detained in Berks county, USA
Astrid (14) and her father, Arturo (49), have been detained at the Berks County Residential Center in Pennsylvania.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Mar 2018 -
Urgent Action: Smear campaign against environmental defenders in Guatemala
Members of the Centre for Environmental, Social and Legal Action (CALAS) have been the target of a smear campaign after they challenged the license of the San Rafael mining company in court.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Risk of excessive force against protestors in GuatemalaPeople peacefully protesting against a mining project in Casillas, Guatemala, and by-standers were tear gassed and dispersed by riot police on 22 June. There are concerns of further excessive use of force as police presence continues in the community.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous defenders attacked and at risk in Guatemala
Aura Lolita Chávez, a renowned Guatemalan human rights defender and Indigenous leader, and members of her organization the K’iche People’s Council (CPK) were threatened and attacked by unidentified armed men.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds stranded at Mexico–Guatemala border
Approximately 400 people from rural Guatemala are stranded at the Mexico-Guatemala border in temporary shelters and tents, without adequate access to water, food, or medical supplies, after a Guatemalan court order was executed to evict them.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Environmental defender intimidated in Guatemala
On the night of 3 April, unidentified people situated in front of human rights defender Rafael Maldonado’s house in Guatemala City, shot at a car nearby. Although he was unharmed, the defender believes the incident was intended to intimidate him and is…
Urgent action outcomes 10 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Young human right's defender shot dead in Guatemala
Guatemalan human rights defender Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima was assassinated on 12 November. He was the Assistant to the Executive Director of the Guatemalan Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (CALAS).
Urgent action outcomes 16 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Anti-impunity organization's offices raided in Guatemala
The offices of Impunity Watch in Guatemala were ransacked by unidentified armed men on 21 June. All persons working in the organization need immediate protection.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Jun 2016
