Guatemala

GUATEMALA ADVOCACY AND ACTION RESOURCES

Organizations / Websites:

School of the Americas Watch             www.soaw.org

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)   www.nisgua.org

Rights Action            www.rightsaction.org  

Guatemala Human Rights Commission/US       http://www.ghrc-usa.org

Guatemala Solidarity Network, UK         www.guatemalasolidarity.org.uk/

Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (Justice for Guatemala Campaign, femicide campaign)      www.cgrs.uchastings.edu/

Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala (FHRG)  http://www.fhrg.org/mambo/index.php

Amnesty International     http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/guatemala/page.do?id=1011162&n1=3&n2=30&n3=912

Summary of the United Nations’ 1999 Truth Commission report: http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/report/english/toc.html

Summary article abut the Catholic Church’s REMHI report directed by the murdered Bishop Juan Gerardi:  http://www.fhrg.org/remhi/pieces.htm

Guatemala Solidarity Committee of Boston   http://home.earthlink.net/~guatcomboston/index.html

Newspapers:

La Prensa Libre       www.prensalibre.com

Books:

Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REMHI). Guatemala: Nunca Mas! (also available in one-volume abridged edition in English, Guatemala: Never Again!)

Victoria Sanford.  Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala

Francisco Goldman.  The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?

Richard H. Immerman.  The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention

Eduardo Galeano. Open Veins of Latin America

Naomi Klein. Shock Doctrine

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COOPERATIVES

International Cooperative Alliance:  http://www.ica.coop/al-ica/

International Cooperative Alliance:  http://www.ica.coop/coop/index.html

International Cooperative Alliance: Statement on Cooperative Identity, Values, and Principles:  http://www.ica.coop/coop/principles.html

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FAIR TRADE

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WOMEN"S DEVELOPMENT