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.
