Groups and individuals currently receiving PBI accompaniment

• Association of Indigenous Women of Santa María Xalapán
• Association for the Protection of Montaña de las Granadillas (APMG)
• National Coordination of Widows of Guatemala (CONAVIGUA)
• The Organisation to Support an Integrated Sexuality to Confront AIDS (OASIS)
• Union of Campesino Organisations for the Verapaces (UVOC)

Follow up

We regularly receive requests for accompaniment from social organisations and human rights defenders who are or who feel threatened. Through international accompaniment, we seek to reduce the threats and open a more secure space in which they can carry out their work. Once the level of risk, the threats and security incidents suffered by the accompanied organisations and individuals have diminished, we continue the accompaniment in the “follow up” phase. This means that we reduce the physical accompaniment and continue to maintain contact with them through visits and/or phone calls to their workplaces and offices. At the same time, we remain available to respond should they have specific requests for international presence.

• Centre for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH)

• Human Rights Defenders Protection Unit (UDEFEGUA)