The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, humanitarian organization founded in 1982 to monitor, document, and report on the human rights situation in Guatemala.GHRC/USA promotes advocacy for and aid to victims of human rights violations. To this end, GHRC/USA has conducted on-site investigations of specific Guatemalan cases, organized briefings and speaking tours for activists, and led educational delegations to Guatemala.GHRC/USA also publishes the bi-weekly Guatemala Human Rights UPDATE, an eight-page summary of recent human rights news, and periodically issues urgent actions and special reports. Staff members provide vital information for political asylum cases, including expert witness testimony.Currently, GHRC/USA is also working on a campaign, For Women's Right to Live, to pressure the Guatemalan government to investigate the over 2,500 brutal murders of women since 2000, and to stem future violence.
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Femicide - Machismo & Murder: Want to get away with murder? Go to Guatemala, where the conviction rate for the murder of women is almost zero. Gangs, drug cartels, machismo, sexism, international apathy, the remnants a long civil war, ... By GHRC Delegate Andrew Petonak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQKK2_Bohto
The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads and U.S. Power, by Susanne Jonas. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer. New York: Doubleday, 1982.I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. New York: Verso Editions, 1984.Massacres in the Jungle: Ixcan, Guatemala, 1975-1982, by Ricardo Falla. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. (also available in Spanish, Masacres de la Selva)Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q’eqchi’ Experiences, by Richard Wilson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process, by Susanne Jonas. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage Terror and Hope, by Beatriz Manz. California: University of California Press, 2004.Searching for Everardo, by Jennifer Harbury. Warner Books, 1997.Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala, by Daniel Wilkinson. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.The Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, by Sister Dianna Ortiz. New York, Orbis Books, 2002.