The case of a Indigenous Guatemalan community radio host criminalized for his work is garnering international attention from a coalition of organizations working on freedom of expression, human rights, and Indigenous Peoples' rights. In September of 2015, Oscar Mejía (Maya K’iche) was detained during a raid at community radio station in Chichicastenango, Quiché, Guatemala. Radio Swan Tinamit, property of the community, promotes the u
ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES, PRESENTAN AMICUS CURIAE, POR LA VIOLACIÓN DEL DEBIDO PROCESO, EN EL EJERCICIO DE LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN DEL COMUNICADOR INDÍGENA OSCAR MEJIA
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Migrants and asylum seekers are protected by international human rights, refugee, and humanitarian law. We believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what their country of citizenship, their country of residence, their legal status, ethnicity, or their economic conditions. International human rights law was created to protect the most vulnerable populations, and the United States has a moral and legal obligation to uphold those standards and to treat with dignity any human beings fleeing conditions of violence and economic injustice.
The Red Willow Womyn’s Family Society, Mill Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Cultural Survival Condemns the Trump Administration’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border
The Department of Homeland Security reported on June 15, 2018, that the Trump administration separated 1,995 children from the adults they were traveling with at the U.S. border between April 19 and May 31.
By Ulia Gosart
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) remains among the most controversial regulatory mechanisms created to manage professional economic and social relationships between Indigenous communities and external parties.
Photo: CODECA members march to Guatemala City from their communities to march on June 12, 2018. By @GtCodeca on Twitter.
In the past weeks, three human rights defenders from the Campesino Development Committee have been killed, totaling seven fatal attacks on human rights defenders in Guatemala over the past four weeks.
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