About Frauke Decoodt
Frauke Decoodt, who spent a year working for an international human rights organization in 2010, is back in Guatemala to document numerous social justice issues she first encountered. (read more)
Living on the edge of the abyss
Independent from the Occupy Movement in North-America and Europe, a movement of slum dwellers in Guatemala is occupying the street in front of Congress. They are protesting against the living conditions in the slums and a disfunctional housing policy. To change their situation they not only occupied Congress but made a bill and eventually started a hunger strike. (read article)
!! This land is ours !!
A tale of land theft through violence and law
“This land is ours! It does not belong to the State. It is ours, as indigenous people!” says 20 year old Guatemalan Lorena Sanchez when on the 3rd of May 2011 a state representative from Fondo de Tierras, an institution supposedly regulating access to land, arrived in Tzalbal to tell its people they are living on state property… (read article)
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