State, Non-State, and Key International Actors
State Actors
Secretaría de Paz (SEPAZ)
Fondo Nacional para la Paz (FONAPAZ)
Organismo Judicial de Guatemala
Superindendencia de Administración Tributaria
Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social (IGSS)
Comisión Presidencial Coordinadora de la Politica del Ejecutivo en Materia de Derechos Humanos (COPREDEH)
Non-State Actors
Coordinación Nacional de Viudas de guatemala (CONAVIGUA)
Centro de Investigationes Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA)
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC)
Key International Actors
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Misión de Verificación de las Naciones Unidas en Guatemala MINUGUA
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Human Rights Field Presence in Guatemala
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Guatemala
The ICRC in Guatemala
Peace Promotion
Recommended Documents
Peace Agreements Digital Collection. United States Institute of Peace Library Washington
Guatemala Five Years after the Peace agreements. International Conference in Oslo. Dezember 2001
Centro de Estudios de Guatemala
swisspeace Report. Guatemala acuerdos de paz y promocion de la paz. 2002.
10 years without war... waiting for peace: The State of Compliance with the Peace Accord on Strengthening Civilian Power and the Role of the Armed Forces in a Democratic Society. Peace Brigades International, August 2007. Castellano.
Recomended Links
Human Rights
Recommended Documents
Human Rights Overview. Country Summery 2005. Human Rights Watch. January 2006.
Reports on Guatemala. Amnesty International
Report on Guatemala. Covering Events from January to December 2004. Amnesty International.
The Death Penalty in Guatemala: On the road towards abolition. International Fact-finding Mission. Report of International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH). July 2005.
Documents, Ratifications and Reservations. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Guatemala. Les défenseurs pris pour cibles: des agressions massives, récurrentes, impunies. Mission internationale d?enquête. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. March 2002.
International Resolution on Human Rights concerning Guatemala (in spanish). Equipo Nizkor
Recommended links
Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Democracia y Desarrollo
Procuraduría de Derechos Humanos (PDH)
Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala (ODHAG)
Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala
(FHRG)
Centro para Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH) / Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CHRLA)
Center of Justice and International Law
News on Human Rights issues in Guatemala. The Resource Center of the Americas. Minneapolis.
Comité de Unidad Campesina (CUC)
Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas (CNOC)
The Land Fund. Fondo de Tierras (FONTIERRAS)
Dealing with the Past
Recommended Documents
Dealing with the Past in Post-Conflict Societies. Ten Years after the Peace Accords in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina. swisspeace Conference Paper 1/2007.
Guatemala. Memoria del Silenzio. Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH).
REHMI-Report. Report of Oficina de Derehos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala documenting atrocities during Guatemala's civil war.
Fraze, Barb (Catholic News Service). Guatemala: Never Again!. English translation of the REHMI-Report.
Recommended Links
Centro de Antropología Forense y Ciencias Aplicadas (CAFCA)
Latin American Forensic Anthropology Association (ALAF)
Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG)
Indigenous Peoples
Recommended Documents
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries.
International Labour Organization. Convention (C169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries
Committee on the Rights of the Child. 34th Session. 15 September - 3 October 2003. Day of General Discussion on the Rights of Indigenous Children. Recommendations.
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Fact Sheet No.9 (Rev.1). The Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
E/CN.4/Sub.2/Res.1994/45. Draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Indigenous Peoples
United Nations Guide for Indigenous Peoples
Refugees and Disappeared Persons
Recommended Documents
Christine Cheng and Johannes Chudoba. Moving beyond long-term refugee situations: the case of Guatemala. Working Paper No. 86. Princeton University. March 2003.
Recommended Links
Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala (FAMDEGUA)
Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM)
International Organization for Migration / Organización Internacional para la Migración (IOM/OIM)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)