2006 Association for Community Development (CEIBA)
$38,000 for CEIBA’s project to promote human rights in two municipalities in Huehuetenango, through trainings for community organizations and municipal government officials.
Association of Developing Communities (ACODEF --Asociacion de Comunidades Desarrollo de Fray)
$8,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting land rights for rural, indigenous communities in the department of Alta Verapaz.
Association of Displaced People of Río Negro (ASCRA)
$30,000 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.
Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH)
$30,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal and technical support to organizations of women, youth, disabled people, indigenous peoples and victims of genocide; and pressing for justice for genocide as well as for current human rights violations.
Collective of Liberated Lesbians (Colectiva de Lesbianas Liberadas) (Lesbiradas)
$23,000 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
CONAVIGUA
$30,000 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.
Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG-- Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala)
$15,000 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.
Guatemalan Institute for Comparative Studies in Criminal Science (ICCPG)
$23,000 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.
Ixmucané National Indigenous Women’s Association (Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Guatamaltecas) (Ixmucané)
$15,000 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 the Petén.
Ixqik Women’s Association of Petén
$23,000 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.
Mother Earth Women’s Association (Asociación de Mujeres Madre Tierra)
$15,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting indigenous and farming women’s right to inherit, own and use land and promoting women’s participation in community decision-making in Guatemala’s South Coast.
Public Legal Clinic (Bufete Jurídico Popular)
$30,000 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.
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.
Sinergia No´j
$23,000 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.
United Association of Northern Indigenous Farmers (UNICAN -- Asociacion Unidad Indígena Campesina del Norte)
$8,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting land rights for rural, indigenous communities in the department of Alta Verapaz.
2005
People’s Legal Clinic (Bufete Jurídico Popular)
$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.
Community Training and Development Association (CEIBA—Asociación para la Promoción y el Desarollo de la Comunidad)
$25,000 for CEIBA’s project to promote human rights in two municipalities in Huehuetenango, through trainings for community organizations and municipal government officials.
National Coordination of Guatemalan Widows (CONAVIGUA—Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala)
$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.
Myrna Mack Foundation
$20,000 for its project to support human rights organizations to successfully prosecute cases of discrimination against indigenous people and to press for reform of the justice system.
Agrarian Platform (Plataforma Agraria)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, which is a coalition of national non-governmental organizations and grassroots groups, to advocate for its comprehensive, rights-based proposal for transformation of the rural economy.
Ixqik Women’s Association of Petén (Asociación de Mujeres de Petén Ixqik)
$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.
March 13 Río Negro Maya Achí Campesino Association (ASCRA—Asociación Campesina Río Negro, Trece de Marzo, Maya Achí)
$15,000 for its project to campaign for reparations from the Guatemalan government and the World Bank for communities affected by the Río Negro massacre associated with the construction of the Chixoy dam.
Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH—Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos)
$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.
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.
2004
March 13 Río Negro Maya Achí Campesino Association
(ASCRA—Asociación Campesina Río Negro, Trece de Marzo, Maya Achí)
$15,000 for its project to campaign for reparations from the Guatemalan government and the World Bank for communities displaced and impoverished consequent to the Río Negro massacre associated with the construction of the Chixoy dam.
Association of Family Members of the Detained-Disappeared of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA—Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala)
$15,000 for its project to bring to justice those responsible for the massacre committed against the Dos Erres community.
Ixqik Women’s Association of Petén
(Asociación de Mujeres de Petén Ixqik)
$7,500 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.
Community Training and Development Association
(CEIBA—Asociación para la Promoción y el Desarollo de la Comunidad)
$20,000 for CEIBA’s project to promote human rights in two municipalities in Huehuetenango, through trainings for community organizations and municipal government officials.
People’s Legal Clinic
(Bufete Jurídico Popular)
$20,000 for its project to provide 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.
Center for Human Rights Legal Action
(CALDH—Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include providing legal support to indigenous communities to prosecute high officials of two past administrations for genocide and other crimes against Guatemala’s indigenous peoples.
Center for Women’s Research, Training and Support
(CICAM—Centro de Investigación, Capacitación y Apoyo a la Mujer)
$30,000 for its project to work with the National Civilian Police to ensure effective implementation of domestic violence legislation, with the goals of improving the treatment of women who bring charges and increasing the number of domestic violence cases that are brought to the courts.
National Coordination of Guatemalan Widows
(CONAVIGUA—Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala)
$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 advocacy campaigns.
Myrna Mack Foundation
$20,000 for general support of this organization, whose activities include research and analysis on justice, impunity, and implementation of the Peace Accords; legal and human rights training and capacity building for community leaders; and information dissemination and documentation on legal and human rights issues.
Agrarian Platform (Plataforma Agraria)
$20,000 for general support of this organization, which is a coalition of grassroots organizations and national non-governmental organizations, to advocate for its comprehensive, rights-based proposal for transformation of the rural economy.
2003
People’s Legal Clinic
(Bufete Juridico Popular)
$20,000 in general support of BJP’s activities, which include providing free legal services to indigenous communities in cases of land disputes and human rights violations resulting from Guatemala’s civil war.
Ixqik Women’s Association of Petén
(Asociación de Mujeres de Petén Ixqik)
$15,000 for Ixqik’s project in western Peten to provide legal services for survivors of gender-based violence and to conduct violence prevention outreach in rural communities.
Community Training and Development Association
(CEIBA—Asociación para la Promoción y el Desarollo de la Comunidad)
$20,000 to support CEIBA’s project to promote human rights in two Huehuetenango municipalities that were at the heart of the conflict zone during the civil war, through trainings for community organizations and municipal government officials.
Center for Women’s Research, Training and Support
(CICAM—Centro de Investigación, Capacitación y Apoyo a la Mujer)
$30,000 to support CICAM’s project to work with the National Civilian Police to ensure effective implementation of domestic violence legislation, with the goals of improving the treatment of women who bring charges and increasing the number of domestic violence cases brought to the courts. CICAM also works to provide counseling, medical treatment, and legal aide to the women.
National Coordination of Guatemalan Widows
(CONAVIGUA—Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala)
$25,000 to support CONAVIGUA’s project to promote demilitarization, human rights, and citizen participation through the full implementation of the 1996 Peace Accords. CONAVIGUA, Guatemala’s only national grassroots organization of indigenous women, will train and provide ongoing technical assistance to its grassroots members in reporting human rights abuses and making proposals to the government.
Association of Family Members of the Detained-Disappeared of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA—Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala)
$15,000 to support FAMDEGUA’s project to work with the Dos Erres community to bring to justice those responsible for the massacre committed against the community during the civil war. FAMDEGUA is pursuing the case in both the national courts and through the Inter-American system.
Myrna Mack Foundation
$10,000 to provide general support to the Mack Foundation, whose activities include research and analysis on justice, impunity and implementation of the Peace Accords; legal and human rights training for community leaders, and providing information and documentation on human rights issues.
Agrarian Platform (Plataforma Agraria)
$25,000 in support of Plataforma Agraria, a coalition of grassroots and national non-governmental organizations, for its project to pursue rights-based rural development by combating labor rights violations against agricultural workers, increasing access to land for small farmers, and countering the upheaval wrought by plummeting world coffee prices.
Rights Action
$14,000 to support Rights Action’s project to ensure that CICIACS, the commission investigating the paramilitary’s role in violence and intimidation, investigates human rights abuses and structures of impunity at the local level in rural areas. Rights Action will direct support and technical assistance to six Guatemalan organizations to document human rights abuses and present members of CICIACS with their findings.
$5000 for Rights Action’s project to work with emerging, community-based human rights organizations to strengthen their skills and capacity in seeking redress for human rights violations in rural, indigenous communities and to provide ongoing human rights legal advocacy.
