Asociación Campesina Río Negro, Trece de Marzo, Maya Achí /ASCRA (Association of Displaced People of Río Negro)
$20,000 For its project to campaign for reparations from the Guatemalan government, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank for communities affected by the Río Negro massacre associated with the construction of the Chixoy dam.
Asociación de Comunidades para el Desarrollo de Fray Bartolomé/ ACODEF (Association for Community Development)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting land rights for rural, indigenous communities by pressing the government to purchase unused land and distribute it to farming families.
Asociación de Mujeres Madre Tierra (Mother Earth Women’s Association)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s right to inherit and own land and promoting women’s participation in community decision-making in Guatemala’s South Coast.
Asociación de Mujeres Peteneras “Ixqik” (Ixqik Women’s Association of Petén) $15,000 For its project in western Petén to provide legal services for survivors of gender-based violence and to conduct violence prevention outreach in rural communities.
Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas “Ixmucané” (Ixmucané National Indigenous Women’s Association)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights to inherit and own land and promoting women’s participation in community decision-making in the Petén.
Asociación Unidad Indígena Campesina del Norte /UNICAN (United Association of Northern Indigenous Farmers)
$8,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting land rights for rural, indigenous communities by helping farming families obtain land grants from the government and by campaigning for agrarian reform.
Bufete Jurídico Popular (Public Legal Clinic)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing free legal services to the poor, violence-ridden communities of Rabinal as a nonviolent option for resolving land disputes, addressing domestic violence, and promoting community healing in the wake of the civil war.
Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (Center for Human Rights Legal Action)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal support to indigenous communities to prosecute senior officials of two past administrations for genocide and other crimes against Guatemala’s indigenous peoples.
Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos/CALDH (Center for Human Rights Legal Action)
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal support to indigenous communities to prosecute senior officials of two past administrations for genocide and other crimes against Guatemala’s indigenous peoples.
Colectiva de Lesbianas Liberadas /LESBIRADAS (Collective of Liberated Lesbians)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses committed against lesbians and campaigning for the government to investigate the escalating rape and murder of women in Guatemala City.
Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala /CONAVIGUA (National Committee of Guatemalan Widows)
$20,000 For CONAVIGUA’s project to provide training and ongoing technical assistance for its grassroots members in reporting human rights abuses and making proposals to the government, and to ensure that local concerns are incorporated into CONAVIGUA’s national campaigns.
El Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales de Guatemala /ICCPG (Guatemalan Institute for Comparative Studies in Criminal Science)
$15,000 For ICCPG’s project to promote women’s access to justice by pressing the justice system to investigate violence against women committed by police officers and to prosecute those responsible.
Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala /FAFG (Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation)
$20,000 For FAFG’s project to investigate the causes of increased violence against women in Guatemala City by conducting forensic analysis of the victims and by identifying patterns to the attacks, and to provide this information to women’s rights organizations that are calling for the government to investigate the murders and prosecute those responsible.
Institute for Policy Studies
$30,000 For IPS’ project to promote environmental rights in Guatemala through Trópico Verde (Green Tropic), an environmental rights organization whose activities include challenging threats to indigenous peoples’ land and resource rights in the Petén through grassroots organizing and national policy campaigns.
La Asociación para la Promoción y el Desarrollo de la Comunidad/ CEIBA (Association for Community Development)
$25,000 For CEIBA’s project to promote human rights in two municipalities in Huehuetenango, through trainings for community organizations and municipal government officials.
Rights Action
$25,000 For its project to provide funding and technical assistance to indigenous community organizations that are demanding that the Guatemalan government secure their consent before allowing mining operations to commence on or next to their traditional lands, and to convene a strategy session with community-based indigenous organizations to develop tactics to defend their land rights.
Sinergia No´j
$15,000 For its project to convene a series of strategy sessions for indigenous women’s rights organizations and female land rights activists to develop a common platform and action plan to promote the rights of women to inherit, own and control the land on which they depend to support themselves and their families.
