Asociación Bufete Jurídico Popular/ Bufete (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.
Asociación Campesina Río Negro 13 De Marzo Maya Achi/ ASCRA (Association of Displaced People of Rio Negro)
$20,000 For ASCRA's project to work with COCAICH 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 Coordinadora de Asociaciones y Comunidades para el Desarollo Integral de la Region Ch'orti'/ COMUNDITCH (Coordinating Committee of Associations and Communities for the Integral Development of the Ch’orti Region)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities challenge socially and environmentally destructive mining practices that undermine the rights of indigenous communities.
Asociación de Comunidades Desarrollo De Fray/ ACODEF (Association for Community Development of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing the government to protect land rights for rural, indigenous communities by purchasing unused land and distribute it to farming families.
Asociación de Mujeres de Ixqik/ Ixqik (Ixqik Women’s Association)
$15,000 For Ixqik's 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 (Ixmucané National Association of Guatemalan Women)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing indigenous authorities to respect and protect women's rights to inherit and own land and to participate in community decision-making in the Petén.
Asociación para el Desarollo Integral San Miguelense/ ADISMI (San Miguel Association for Integral Development)
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include organizing indigenous communities to challenge mining practices that threaten to displace them from their land and pollute the natural resources on which they depend for their livelihoods.
Asociación para La Promoción Y El Desarrollo De La Comunidad/ CEIBA (CIEBA 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.
Asociación Sinergia No'j/ Sinergia
$20,000 For Sinergia's 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.
Asociación Unidad Indigena Campesina Del Norte/ UNICAN (United Association of Northern Indigenous Farmers)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for agrarian reform that would respect and protect the land rights of rural, indigenous communities.
Centro Para 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)
$20,000 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.
Comision Pastoral Paz y Ecologia/ COPAE (Peace and Ecology Commission)
$20,000 For COPAE's project to provide legal assistance to community leaders that have been detained for protesting mining operations that threaten to displace indigenous communities and destroy the resources on which they depend for their livelihoods.
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.
Fundacion de Antropologia 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 - Asociación Trópico Verde/ Trópico Verde (Green Tropic)
$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging threats to indigenous peoples' land and resource rights in the Petén through grassroots organizing and national policy campaigns.
Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales de Guatemala/ ICCPG (Guatemalan Institute for Comparative Studies in Criminal Science)
$20,000 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.
Organizacion de Apoyo a una Sexualidad Integral Frente al Sida/ OASIS (Organization for Support of an Integral Sexuality to Combat AIDS)
$15,000 For OASIS' project to promote the rights of lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals by
bringing legal charges against those responsible for the murder of LGBT Guatemalans.
Rights Action
$30,000 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.
Unidad de Proteccion de Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos – Guatemala/ UDEFEGUA (Human Rights Defenders Protection Unit)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting attacks on human rights defenders and providing security training to activists working in dangerous conditions.
