US EditionUN rights committee finds Guatemala responsible for transgenerational harm to Mayan peoples
- In 2021, Mayan leaders brought a case before the UN Human Rights Committee claiming Guatemala forcibly displaced 269 K'iche', Ixil, and Kaqchikel members during 1980s armed conflict scorched earth operations.
- This displacement followed military campaigns that targeted Indigenous populations suspected of guerrilla support amid Mayan protests for equality and cultural recognition before the violence.
- The Committee determined that Guatemala breached its obligations under the UN treaty protecting civil and political rights by forcibly displacing Mayan communities, compelling them to hide their identities, causing cultural erosion, and obstructing essential funeral ceremonies vital to their spiritual wellbeing.
- Committee member Hélène Tigroudja emphasized that forced displacement continues indefinitely until those affected are either safely and honorably able to return home or are resettled voluntarily elsewhere, and she underscored the profound loss inflicted on victims who were deprived of their cultural identity.
- The ruling orders Guatemala to implement reparations including searching for remains, enabling culturally appropriate funeral rites, providing medical and psychological care, and publicly acknowledging responsibility to address transgenerational harms.
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UN rights committee finds Guatemala responsible for transgenerational harm to Mayan peoples
The UN Human Rights Committee found Thursday that Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights of multiple generations of Mayan Indigenous peoples who were forcibly displaced during the country’s armed conflict in the 1980s. The ruling marks a landmark decision that addresses the transgenerational impact of state-led human rights violations. The case was brought in 2021 by 269 members of the K’iche’, Ixil and Kaqchikel communities, who were…
PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR) at 12th anniversary commemoration of genocide conviction - Peace Brigades International-Canada
Photo by Marco Hernandez/FGER. On May 9, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today #PBIacompanies in [the town of] Nebaj [in the department of El Quiché] the Association for Justice and Reconciliation -AJR- in the acts of commemoration of the historic sentence that condemned General Efrain Rios Montt for the #GenocidioIxil. “This is how justice is done; thanks to the struggle of the surviving family members who bravely gave their testimonies and participated…
The UN Human Rights Committee has declared Guatemala responsible for not implementing resettlement agreements and other reparation measures reached with members of the Maya K'iche People, Maya Ixil and Maya Kaqchikel for their continued forced displacement. 269 members of those Peoples who were forcibly displaced from their communities during the land operations razed by the internal armed conflict of the 1980s, came to the Committee in 2021 und…
Statement from the Coordinator of Ixil Organizations on the 12th Anniversary of the Genocide Verdict // Comunicado de la Coordinadora de Organizaciones Ixiles en el 12° Aniversario de la Sentencia por Genocidio
Unofficial translation by the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA). You can find the original statement in Spanish further below. // Puedes encontrar el comunicado original en español más abajo. Coordinating Committee of Ixil Organizations With the energy of our grandmothers and grandfathers of the ka’va’l iq’: we–women and men, family members who have survived the internal armed conflict, Ixil organizations and human r…
GENEVA – The United Nations Human Rights Committee declared Guatemala responsible for not implementing resettlement agreements and other reparation measures reached with members of the Maya K’iche’, Maya ixil and Maya Kaqchikel peoples, for their continued forced displacement. French jurist Hélène Tigroudja, member of the committee, said that “the [...] This article Guatemala has failed to meet its commitments to the Mayan peoples was originally…
Gino Segura receives recognition from the Grand Maya Council for his work in defense of the cultural heritage Felipe Carrillo Puerto, May 2 (InZoom.Mx). – In the heart of the Mayan area, and in the framework of the festivities in honor of the Virgin of the Conception, Senator Gino Segura was distinguished by the Great Maya Council for his impulse to an initiative presented in the Senate of the Republic, with which he seeks to protect the collect…
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