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.
