Guatemala Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Journal article

Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

23/05/2023

20 pages long

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Roadblocks on the ruta de denuncia: negotiating women’s rights and resisting violences in postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

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In 1996, Guatemala’s Peace Accords were signed, concluding 36 years of war and genocide. However, persisting violence, including violences against women (VAW) and criminalisation of human rights defenders protesting inequalities provoked by postwar extractivism, threatens the democracy promised through formal peace. Specifically, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) play key roles in these struggles, which this […]

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Journal article

Engendering injustice: gendered lawfare in Guatemala

23/05/2023

3 pages long

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Engendering injustice: gendered lawfare in Guatemala

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women human rights defenders

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The author presents the case of Virginia Laparra, a former prosecutor from Guatemala, who is now in prison. In this short piece the author argues that Laparra's imprisonment is an example of gender-based political violence and criminalisation of those challenging impunity. This in turn contributes to the erosion of democracy in Guatemala.

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Journal article

Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

07/12/2021

21 pages long

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Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

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This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this […]

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Research report

Funding the Frontline: How an Oxfam Emergency Response Fund facilitated local humanitarian action

09/04/2021

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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From 2014 to 2020 Oxfam embedded an Emergency Response Fund (ERF) in its multiyear disaster risk reduction programs in Asia-Pacific and Central America. The Oxfam ERF was designed as a flexible funding mechanism to prioritize small-scale, under-the-radar, and forgotten emergencies and help local actors respond to and mitigate the impacts of disasters in their communities. […]

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Briefing paper

Shining a Spotlight: A critical assessment of food and beverage companies’ delivery of sustainability commitments

17/03/2021

9 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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From 2013 to 2016, Oxfam's Behind the Brands campaign called on the world’s 10 biggest food and beverage companies to adopt stronger social and environmental sourcing policies and spurred significant commitments on women’s empowerment, land rights and climate change. Now, as the coronavirus pandemic worsens inequality and food insecurity around the world, we assess whether […]

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Book

Narrative Power and Collective Action: Conversations with people working to change narratives for social good – Part 2

21/10/2020

3 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Deeply held 'truths' are coming undone at the seams. As movements across the globe are challenging 'normal', more and more people are looking for new narratives. Narratives are a form a power, made up of many, many, stories, not always written, made up of online content, offline conversations. They are not something that happens over there, they […]

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Briefing paper

¿Quién paga la cuenta? Gravar la riqueza para enfrentar la crisis de la COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe

27/07/2020

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Las previsiones de retroceso económico y social en América Latina y el Caribe son alarmantes. La COVID-19 golpea con fuerza la región marcada que tendrá que afrontar una contracción del 9,4%, una de las más severas en todo el planeta. La desigualdad, la informalidad y la insuficiente dotación sanitaria lastran las posibilidades de hacer frente […]

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Briefing paper

Evitar el Etnocidio: Pueblos indígenas y derechos territoriales en crisis frente a la COVID-19 en América Latina

21/07/2020

2 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

Mientras el mundo entero trata de ponerse a salvo de la pandemia, los pueblos indígenas de América Latina agonizan y algunos podrían llegar a desaparecer. El abandono estatal y la ausencia de servicios adecuados de salud integral y agua segura los hace extremadamente vulnerables al virus que se extiende a toda velocidad por el continente. […]

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Research report

Tienen los impuestos alguna influencia en las desigualdades entre hombres y mujeres?

20/08/2019

3 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Desde la perspectiva de la Economía Feminista la política fiscal, así como cualquier otra política, produce efectos e impactos diferentes en las vidas de las mujeres y los hombres dado que se diseña y actúa sobre contextos aún muy marcados por estereotipos de género: ideas preconcebidas sobre el rol del hombre (el proveedor de ingresos […]

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Journal article

Indigenous women’s anti-mining activism: a gendered analysis of the El Estor struggle in Guatemala

09/11/2017

14 pages long

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Indigenous women’s anti-mining activism: a gendered analysis of the El Estor struggle in Guatemala

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Focusing on the struggle against the Fenix mine in El Estor Guatemala, this article argues that women are disproportionately affected by resource development; and that women’s activism against mining is also gendered, in the sense that they are often distinct from men’s strategies and are rooted in women’s experiences as women, and as indigenous women […]

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