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Support House Resolution 100 to condemn violence against women in Guatemala January 2007

Ask your Representative to Help Stop the Cycle of Violence against Women in Guatemala November 2006

Draw Attention to Violence against Women in Guatemala! April 2006

Tell Congress NO to lifting the Guatemala military aid ban, August 2005

NISGUA alert on Guatemala military aid ban, April-May 2005

End the EMP, Guatemala's "Death Squad" Military Unit.
Click here to see this flash movie from Amnesty International asking activists around the world to send a message to Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo to urge him to immediately disband the notorious EMP intelligence unit. Portillo has repeatedly promised to disband the EMP but last year, instead of shutting down the EMP, Portillo actually doubled the EMP's budget. Meanwhile, clandestine groups with shadowy links to the EMP continue their assault on activists, journalists, judges, lawyers and witnesses in key human rights cases.
www.amnestyusa.org/countries/guatemala/actions/peace_accords/emp.html

Support efforts by NISGUA to stop impunity for genocide cases in Guatemala
www.nisgua.org/articles/tour action 2002 for midwest.htm

Urgent Actions on Cases

For the latest updates on other actions you can take to protect human rights defenders in Guatemala and the important work that they do:

Read the Urgent Actions posted by the Guatemala Human Rights Commission www.ghrc-usa.org and Amnesty International www.amnestyusa.org/countries/guatemala/