61. T R U T H O U T - Across The Americas, Indigenous Peoples Make Themselves Heard In guatemala, indigenous political power has flourished since the signing of a peace Across the Americas, indigenous peoples Make Themselves Heard http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/102003F.shtml

Print This Story E-mail This Story Go to Original Across the Americas, Indigenous Peoples Make Themselves Heard By Héctor Tobar Los Angeles Times Sunday 19 October 2003 Above the rocky bowl of La Paz, this vast township of brick and adobe homes stretches across a dry plain. This is where the Aymara Indians of western Bolivia come to live and work when their farms can no longer feed them. For the past week, the hardscrabble order of El Alto gave way to a fervor of rebellion. Armed with the traditional weapons of the Aymara people - sticks, slingshots and muscle - its residents fought the army, built barricades and derailed a train, cutting off and shutting down the capital below them. "We are not going to allow ourselves to be pushed around anymore," said Bernaldo Castillo Mollo, a 37-year-old Aymara bricklayer and jack-of-all-trades who was shot in the foot during the protests. "So that our children have a better life than us, we are willing to die." The Indian-led movement that brought down Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada last week was only the most recent and startling expression of a growing militancy and political assertiveness among the native peoples of the Americas. In Ecuador and in Guatemala, indigenous leaders arguably wield more influence in local and national affairs than in any time since the Spanish conquest. And in Chile and Mexico, resistance to the changes brought by the global economy are helping to feed a renaissance of indigenous organizations.

62. Heart Of Sky This would have pushed civil and indigenous rights in guatemala back many The Accord on Identity and the Rights of indigenous peoples is separated into http://www.uwec.edu/greider/hos/jhgovern.htm

Maya Spirituality Contemporary Social and Political Issues Resources Contemporary Social and Political Issues Government Action In Guatemala Government Action in Guatemala Guatemala's history, stretching back to the Spanish colonization in the 1600's, is one fraught with violence and civil disrepute. Unfortunately there has never been a lasting peace here, and until the signing of the Guatemalan Peace Accords in 1996 it was doubtful if there would ever be. As recently as 1954 another bloody chapter of history began for Guatemalans when the United States sponsored a military coup to over-throw then President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, and replaced him with Col. Carlos Castillo Armas. This intervention was rationalized by a growing alarm in the United States government over social reform and land programs, which President Guzman favored. The United States justified the coup by counting these reforms as a reflection of growing communist influence in Guatemala. An influence that the United States spent a half a century trying to destroy throughout the world. The newly established military government in Guatemala turned its focus inward in an effort to root out dissident communist groups and rebel bases in response to a reported increased in guerrilla activity in the mountain and lowland regions. This activity created even more pressure on the already threatened indigenous Mayan population of Guatemala.

63. Sida - What Does Sida Do In Guatemala? ensuring the rights and participation of women and indigenous peoples el machismo are widespread in guatemala and these mean that indigenous peoples and http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=381&a=17406

64. Documenting Mayan Women's Struggle For Human Rights: New World Outlook, Septembe These obstacles are even greater for guatemala s indigenous women. work documentshumanrights violations against the indigenous peoples of guatemala. http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/99so/mayan.html

Text Version A Lengthy Act of Genocide Freedom To Communicate Capturing Truth on Film As the first rays of sun penetrate the morning mist of the Guatemalan highlands, a young Mayan woman comes out of a small adobe house, surrounded by the green of cornfields. She ties back her long black hair, adjusts her handwoven skirt and blouse, then walks along the path leading to the church in the village square. Stopping and reaching into her shoulder bag, she pulls out...a video camera and sound equipment. "I want to get some shots of the church before we interview the women's group," she calls out, checking the battery in her microphone. by Wendy-Maria Jacques Emiliana Aguilar learned videography to document the experiences, faith, and courage of the indigenous people of Guatemala. Photo by Wendy-Maria Jacques The woman is Emiliana Aguilar, a videographer and film producer with Centro Ixim Ixim is a Mayan video-production collective created to promote peace and human rights in Guatemala . Today, Aguilar is conducting interviews for her documentary film Kuj Kowinik!

65. Mayan Spirituality In guatemala, the violent repression of indigenous spirituality that began with Today they are less rabid in their opposition to indigenous peoples. http://gbgm-umc.org/response/articles/Mayan.html

Maya Spirituality in Postwar Guatemala by Paul Jeffrey When Diego de Landa burned the books of the Maya in the 16th century, the Spanish Roman Catholic inquisitor thought he could wipe out Indigenous memory. By destroying long sheets of bark paper, he thought he could destroy knowledge conveyed in signs and images that spoke of dreams and wars and people born before Christ, of the movements of stars and frequency of eclipses, of the respect for God in nature necessary to call for timely rain and good corn harvests. Yet Diego de Landa, in his zeal to destroy what he deemed idolatry, was mistaken. The faith of the Maya wasn't bound in those primitive codices he turned to ash. Evidence that he ultimately failed can be found every morning throughout the Indigenous highlands of Guatemala and southern Mexico, where Maya farmers rise from their sleep to thank father sun and mother earth for another day. Though Diego de Landa failed in his campaign against paganism, he shouldn't be forgotten. To write about interfaith relations in Guatemala today leads back to the first encounter between two worlds the violence and ethnocide that followed quickly upon Christopher Columbus' journeys to what Europeans called the New World. Although Diego de Landa, a Franciscan priest, was a fanatic who had his share of Spanish critics, his naming as a bishop shortly after his book-burning rampage indicates he carried out imperial and ecclesiastical policy. It was clearly a period of history marked by fear and arrogance, European sins for which millions of Maya paid with their lives.

66. Eco-Index: Preparation Of The Regional Map "Indigenous Peoples And Natural Ecosy Preparation of the map on indigenous peoples and Natural Ecosystems in Central Preparation of national indigenous maps for El Salvador, guatemala and http://www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?ProjectID=442

67. Concluding Observations/Comments - Guatemala The Committee considered the seventh periodic report of guatemala has beenthe Agreement on Identity and Rights of indigenous peoples and the Agreement http://wwwserver.law.wits.ac.za/humanrts/country/guatemala1997.html

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Guatemala, 23/04/97. COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Fiftieth session CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONVENTION Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Guatemala 1. The Committee considered the seventh periodic report of Guatemala (CERD/C/292/Add.1) at its 1190th and 1191st meetings (CERD/C/SR.1190 and 1191), held on 5 and 6 March 1997. At its 1210th meeting, held on 19 March 1997, it adopted the following concluding observations. A. Introduction 2. The Committee welcomes the opportunity to engage in a frank and fruitful dialogue with the Government of Guatemala. The Committee expresses its appreciation of the continuous dialogue with Guatemala during this time of important changes and developments in the State party. 3. The Committee expresses its appreciation for the important information provided in the report and by the delegation in the oral presentation. This information, including recent developments in the State party, enabled the Committee to obtain a better and more up-to-date picture of the situation. Nevertheless, the Committee regrets that the report did not contain sufficient information on the actual practice in the State party with respect to the implementation of the Convention and did not take sufficient account of the concluding observations of the Committee with respect to the previous report (A/50/18, paras. 298-319).

68. CESCR Concluding Observations: GUATEMALA The Committee welcomes the ratification by guatemala of the persistingdiscrimination against indigenous peoples, with regard to access to, inter alia, http://sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/a0abfbf7fda4d83341256df000391fbe?Op

69. Written 1002 PM Oct 14, 1991 By Cerisea In Igcreg.guatemala Gathering of the 500 Years of indigenous and Popular Resistance Campaign inGuatemala. indigenous peoples throughout the Americas gathered to critically http://www.tulane.edu/~libweb/RESTRICTED/CERIGUA/1991_1006.txt

70. Opposition To Columbus Day RE indigenous People s Opposition to Celebration and Glorification of At this time, murderous acts against the people of guatemala are fresh in mind. http://www.aimovement.org/moipr/columbus-oct00.html

PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WORLDWIDE October 6, 2000 Ministry for Information, American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council Press Contact: WaBun-Inini, Ind-diz-Nikaz Anishinabe Ojibwe Nation aka, Vernon Bellecourt, National Representative Phone: 612-721-3914 Fax: 612-721-7826 aimggc@worldnet.att.net www.aimovment.org RE: Indigenous People's Opposition to Celebration and Glorification of Colonial Pirate Christopher Columbus As we enter the new Millennium on October 9 or 12, 2000, the settler governments and peoples of North, Central and South America, who occupy the lands of various Indigenous nations of peoples, will again celebrate with holiday parades and festivals the invasion of our sacred lands by the colonial pirate Christopher Columbus. Columbus was the beginning of the American holocaust, ethnic cleansing characterized by murder, torture, raping, pillaging, robbery, slavery, kidnapping, and forced removals of Indian people from their homelands. To our Italian American friends, we say that to celebrate the legacy of this murderer is an affront to all Indian peoples, and others who truly understand this history. It would be the same as if German people would celebrate and glorify Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism, and the Nazi holocaust by holding parades through the Jewish communities of America and throughout the world. We unequivocally support the right of Indian peoples of all the Americas along with friends and supporters to peacefully hold demonstrations and vigils, and exercise firm and resolute civil disobedience against any groups, religious, other organizations, and governments who continue to insist on celebrating and glorifying the murderous Columbus with parades, festivals, and celebrations.

71. Maya Community Radio Project In Guatemala In guatemala, indigenous communities have been using a community radio To use the radio as a tool for transmitting information that people really need. http://www.imadr.org/project/guatemala/radio/

Radio for Empowerment of Maya Communities Support Indigenous Communities Create Their Own Radio, Secure Space for Their Own Voice! IMADR is calling for support to a new project in the communities of Bocacosta, department of Solola, Guatemala to build a community radio station. We are seeking both financial and technical help to help the Maya communities successfully build and administer their own radio station. Full Text of Project Proposal Why a community radio? In Guatemala, indigenous communities have been using a community radio since 20 years ago as a tool to disseminate information people need and transmit Maya languages and cultures. Elsewhere in the indigenous world, the community radio has played an important role in providing community news and serving as a community bulletin board. It also "builds self-esteem in individuals and tribes," and "successfully transmits indigenous culture." The communities in Bocacosta where IMADR/ MJP educational project has been carried out have recently decided to build their own radio station in order to expand and improve their educational activities.

72. DPI Press Kit In guatemala, 87 per cent of indigenous people are below the poverty line and In guatemala, most indigenous people do not have access to safe drinking http://www.un.org/rights/50/people

Indigenous people: Challenges facing the international community Growing public interest in indigenous people and a long process of international negotiations involving indigenous organizations prompted the international community to proclaim 1993 as the International Year of the World's Indigenous People, and then the period 1995-2004 as the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, to focus on issues of concern to indigenous people. In addition, 9 August has since 1995 been celebrated as the International Day of the World's Indigenous People. Each of these steps has been important in the struggle for the recognition of the rights of indigenous people. These steps are all the more meaningful with the forthcoming anniversary of a landmark human rights document adopted by the United Nations 50 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration recognizes the inherent dignity of every human being and sets forth in detail the rights to be enjoyed by all "without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status". Within the framework of the World Public Information Campaign, launched by the United Nations in 1988, the Universal Declaration has been translated into more than 40 indigenous languages and widely disseminated among indigenous communities. The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) also focuses attention on the importance of human rights education for all, including indigenous people, in view of the problems encountered by indigenous communities.

73. Oxfam Australia :: Oxfam News guatemala’s indigenous people have long been economically and politicallydisadvantaged in a country dominated by a small number of powerful and rich people http://www.oxfam.org.au/oxfamnews/september_2003/guatemala.html

Programs Donate Now Events Media About Us Campaigns Get Active Resources Shop Search Your location :: home oxfam news magazine Email to a friend Print Friendly Oxfam Horizons September 2003 Editorial Executive Director ... India Guatemala Agra Bazaar Our Community 74% of indigenous people in Guatemala live in poverty, while 41% of non-indigenous people are in poverty. (Source: Human Rights Watch) Only 25% of indigenous people in the national education system receive education in their own native language. (Source: MINUGUA) (Source: Trends in Latin American Networking) (Source: US Department of State) Guatemala: Indigenous voices loud and clear Central America Program Officer Jo Sanson reports on a project which is helping to strengthen indigenous organisations in Guatemala. Field Officer Virginia Ajxup leads a workshop on indigenous ways of working. Photo: Jo Sanson/OxfamAUS Indigenous ways of working Find out more about Guatemala Programs Campaigns Donate ... Contact Us

74. Oxfam Australia :: Our Work In Guatemala guatemala indigenous voices loud and clear guatemala s indigenous people havelong been economically and politically disadvantaged in a country dominated http://www.oxfam.org.au/world/latam/guatemala/

Programs Donate Now Events Media About Us Campaigns Get Active Resources Shop Search Your location :: home our programs guatemala Email to a friend Print Friendly Guatemala Our Work in Guatemala Country Statistics Population: 13.9 million Ethnic groups: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish or assimilated Amerindian - in local Spanish called Ladino), approximately 55%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian, approximately 43%, whites and others 2%. Life expectancy: Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs Adult literacy: total population: 70.6% (male: 78%; female: 63.3%) Education: Sources: CIA World Fact book, US Department of State Past Programs :: Guatemala Map of Guatemala Oxfam Australia ran development programs in Guatemala for 13 years, from 1992-2005. Find out more about the withdrawal of Oxfam Australia's development programs in Guatemala. Our development work in Guatemala was in partnership with six local organisations, supporting indigenous peoples' rights to practice traditional forms of authority, customary law and religion, to be educated in their mother tongue, enshrine indigenous rights in national and international legislation, and promote the respect for cultural diversity. Highlights of our work in Guatemala include: Development of a Maya school curriculum which is now being used in six schools with more than 1,500 students, and has strengthened efforts to have Maya culture and language included in the public school curriculum.

75. Indigenous Peoples Condemn New Policy Of The World Bank The representatives of the indigenous peoples of the world, participants in Guatemalan indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchú was granted the Nobel Peace http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press637.htm

The following statement is from the May 2005 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples. Specifically it criticises the Bank's continued rejection of Free, Prior and Informed Consent before any development project (including mining and other extractive industries) in favour of their return to the weaker concept of 'consultation'. Indigenous Peoples Condemn New Policy of the World Bank Press Release - United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues New York, May 25th, 2005 The representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of the world, participants in the 4th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues of the United Nations (New York, May 16th - 27th, 2005), harshly condemn the new policies of the World Bank toward Indigenous Peoples. The World Bank, through its representatives, has convened a special session to introduce what it calls its "A Revised Policy on Indigenous Issues." Mr. Navin Rai, World Bank representative, presented the new policy yesterday, May 24th, in this special session, in which he declared that, "I have to recognize that the new policy of the World Bank does not meet the expectations of the Indigenous Peoples." The Bank deliberately excludes the fundamental demands of the Indigenous Peoples, such as the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent before the initiation of any project that affects Indigenous Peoples. In place of Consent, we have returned to the concept of "consultation" of affected Indigenous communities. This, does not guarantee any right to stop on projects that negatively affect or impact the Indigenous Peoples.

76. Environmental Justice Case Study Indigenous People S Land Rights In 1993, indigenous people and other landless/poor people in guatemala formed this For indigenous people to gain civil and land rights in guatemala, http://www.umich.edu/~snre492/peten.html

Environmental Justice Case Study: Indigenous People's Land Rights in the Peten Region of Guatemala: After the Peace Table of Contents Problem Background Key Actors Demographics ... Contact person Back to Environmental Justice Case Studies Above image taken from http://www.travelvantage.com/gua.html The Problem Back to Table of Contents Background A recent peace accord, ending a 36 year long civil war has conjured up some semblance of hope - hope that the Mayans and their descendents will be distributed land in which to live on peacefully. The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, the group of indigenous peoples who waged the 31 year campaign against the Guatemalan government and military, have called for dramatic reforms to Article 203 of the Guatemalan Constitution. These reforms would in effect recognize the customary law of Mayans and land rights. The emergence of a strong Mayan identity in the past 20 years has sparked new life into the fight for indigenous land rights. Back to Table of Contents Key Actors The People's Communities in Resistance in Peten In 1993, indigenous people and other landless/poor people in Guatemala formed this organization, with the intent of improving the quality of life and rights of people living in the Peten. Most of the people involved in this organization live either deep in the rainforests or in Mexican refugee camps. But in October of 1993, they crept out from under the woodwork and marched to Guatemala City as a formal delegation with a list of demands.

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78. Choike : Indigenous Peoples . ILRC is dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples’ human rights, Their work began in response to the violence of the Guatemalan civil war and is http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/4/34/links.html

var category = '4'; var subcategory = '34'; Directory NGO sites This site Directory In-depth Reports Campaigns News ... CONTACT Categorias(category); SubCategorias(category,subcategory); Indigenous Peoples recommended Indian Law Resource Center ILRC is dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples’ human rights, cultures, and traditional lands. The Center provides legal and technical support to indigenous communities working on these issues. Tebtebba Tebtebba Foundation is committed to the recognition, protection and promotion of indigenous peoples' rights worldwide. Kaitiaki - Maori Environmental and Heritage Guardians The site works on behalf of whanau, hapu and iwi, particularly on environment and resource management issues. New Zealand. NGO sites Ak'Tenamit Organization dedicated to reduce poverty in the rain forests of eastern Guatemala. Aldet Centre - Saint Lucia Organization established for the purpose of promoting strategic studies, human rights and democratic development in Saint Lucia (Hiwanaru). Amanaka'a Amazon Network Organization dedicated to support the peoples of the Amazon Rainforest. Brazil.

79. 9746/9822—Guatemala's Indigenous People—11/18/97, 6/2/98 The attempts to redress centuries of discrimination against the Mayan majority. http://www.commongroundradio.org/shows/97/9746.html

Original Air Date: November 18, 1997 Rebroadcast Air Date: June 2, 1998 Program 9746/9822 GUATEMALA'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE Guests: Members of Guatemala's Mayan communities and other representatives of governmental and nongovernmental organizations (This text has been professionally transcribed, However, for timely distribution, it has not been edited or proofread against the tape.) MARY GRAY DAVIDSON: This is Common Ground . In Guatemala, 60 percent of the people are descendants of the Mayan Indians. For five centuries, ever since the Spanish conquest, the Mayan people of Guatemala have been discriminated against, their lands taken away, and they've been brutally victimized. Some of the worst repression occurred during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, which ended only in December 1996. TEK ITZEP PASA: (translated) On May 24th of 1980 the army arrived on market day. The army began a massacre that killed 325 people, including children, women and elders. It all happened within an hour-and-a-half. DAVIDSON: The peace accords signed at the end of the war addressed the need to incorporate Guatemala's indigenous people into mainstream society.

80. Indigenous Peoples, Inter-Cultural Relations And Development indigenous peoples, InterCultural Relations and Development The Guatemalanoffice of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has expressed http://web.idrc.ca/es/ev-67582-201_100820-1-IDRC_ADM_INFO.html

Português Français English IDRC.CA ... Centroamérica Explorador Proyectos en Guatemala Evaluation of "Central... Forestry Decentralizat... Building the future fo... ... Peace-Building and Civ... Personas Nadine E Robitaille Identificación: Creado: Modificado: Novedades Indigenous Peoples, Inter-Cultural Relations and Development Toda la información Datos generales Detalle Notas ... Financiamiento Project number: Program: REG-RAF/FAR Project Status: ADMIN CLOSED Project Type: Research Support Project Responsible Officer: Federico Burone Region under study: LAC Region Duration months: Extension months: Canadian Collaboration: NO Project Admin Unit: LACRO / BRALA Project commencement date: Project planned completion date: Project actual completion date: Project total amount: Total Internal Funding: Total External Funding: Region Guatemala - LACRO/BRALA Collaborating officers Andrés Rius Duration months: Project total amount: Recipient Institution(s) United Nations Development Programme/Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement/Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Edited Abstract English This grant will support a workshop to be held in Guatemala on intercultural relations in countries with a significant indigenous population. This is a key issue in the Guatemalan peace process and there are lessons to be shared from experiences in Guatemala, Canada and other Latin American countries. The Guatemalan office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has expressed interest in co-organizing the event. The workshop will provide an opportunity for different organizations to share their experiences and concerns, as well as inputs for IDRC programming in the region.

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