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Videos on Guatemalan Human Rights:

• Violence against women in Guatemala, Amanda Martin and Norma Cruz at UCF
• FRONTLINE Guatemala: The Secret Files
• Amnesty International: Justice Without Borders (case against Rios Montt)
• Violent Evictions in El Estor, Izabal
• Never Again: A Military Parade

Reports:

2009 - Analysis

• Guatemalan organizations analyze 2009:
  • Mutual Support Group: Report on the Situation of Violence and Human Rights Violations
  • UDEFEGUA Mid-Year Report (2009) on Human Rights Defenders [English][Spanish]
  • Human Rights Ombudsman's Report [Resumen Ejecutivo]
    
• UN publishes 2009 Human Rights Report

Corruption and Impunity

• Police Involvement in Killings in Guatemala
  Amnesty International, October 2009

Human Rights Defenders

• Human rights defenders at grave risk in Guatemala, UN expert finds [2008]

Violence Against Women and Femicide

• Crimes without Punishment: Violence Against Women in Guatemala
  Karen Musalo, Elisabeth Pellegrin, S. Shawn Roberts
  Hastings Women's Law Journal, 19 April 2010

• Three Thousand and Counting: A Report on Violence Against Women in Guatemala
  GHRC, 2007

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Violence Against Women in Mexico and Guatemala
  Washington Office on Latin America, 2007

• Femicide, Impunity, and Citizenship: The Old and New in the Struggle for Justice in Guatemala
  Dr. Roselyn Costantino, GHRC delegate and Assoc. Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University Altoona, 2006

• Guatemala's Femicides and the Ongoing Struggle for Women's Human Rights: Update to CGRS's 2005 Report Getting Away with Murder
  Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, 2006

• Update to No Protection, No Justice
  Amnesty International, 2006

• No Protection, No Justice: Killings of Women in Guatemala
  Amnesty International, 2005

• Getting Away With Murder: Guatemala's Failure to Protect Women and Rodi Alvarado's Quest for Safety
  Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, 2005

• Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Mission to Guatemala (pdf) United Nations, 2005

Internal Conflict

• Guatemala: Memory of Silence
  Historical Clarification Commission (CEH) Report, 1999


• State Violence in Guatemala: A Quantitative Reflection
  Patrick Ball, Paul Kobrak, and Herbert F. Spirer, 1999

Migration

• Guatemala Alternative Report on Enforcement of International Convention on the Protection of Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families
Mesa Nacional para las Migraciones en Guatemala (General Coordinator), Oct. 2010

Organizations:

• Asociacion de Desarollo Integral de las Victimas de la Violencia en las Verapaces (ADIVIMA)
• Casa Alianza
• Casa Alianza UK
• Casa Guatemala
• Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA)
• Fundación Sobrevivientes
• Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala
• Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM)
• Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) - Conclusions and Recommendations
• Guatemala Scholars Network
• Guatemala Truth
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• Latin America Working Group (LAWG)
• May I Speak Freely
• National Security Archives
• Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)
• Peace Brigades International- Guatemala
• Rights Action
• School of the Americas Watch
• Speak Truth to Power
• Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC)
• Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

 

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