Grants for 2010

Asociación Bufete Jurídico Popular (Bufete)

$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 iolence, and promoting community healing in the wake of the civil war.

Asociación Campesina Rio Negro 13 De Marzo Maya Achi (ASCRA)

$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' (COMUNDICH)

$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include helping indigenous communities protect their land and resource rights by securing legal title to their traditional lands.

Asociación de Comunidades Desarrollo De Fray (ACODEF)

$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 distributing it to farming families.

Asociación de Mujeres de Ixqik (IXQIK

$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 (Ixmucane)

$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)

$20,000 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)

$40,000 For Ceiba's project to work with indigenous communities to challenge threats posed by mining operations to their land and resource rights ($35,000) and to provide funding to the Huehuetenango Departmental Assembly to conduct democratic consultations on mining as a development strategy for indigenous communities ($5,000).

Asociación Sinergia No'j (Sinergia)

$30,000 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)

$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)

$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)

$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)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting the health and environmental impacts of mining in indigenous communities and bringing legal cases to challenge abusive corporate practices.

Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala (CONAVIGUA)

$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.

Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales de Guatemala (ICCPG)

$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.

Rights Action

$35,000 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 Protección A Defensoras Y Defensores De Derechos Humanos (UDEFEGUA)

$30,000 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.