CULTURAL RIGHTS, LAND AND& NATURAL RESOURCES
Community land ownership is first step to sustainable community development and human rights. Responsible stewardship of resources ensures healthy community development and respect for cultural rights.

CHIAPAS
Conference for community leaders from Chiapas and Central America, on issues related to Dam projects throughout southern Mexico and Central America.

Global Exchange (Chiapas). Purchase test kits for "genetically modified" study of corn in rural Chiapas.

HONDURAS
COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations) | photo gallery
Land and cultural rights, education, training and community development projects for Lenca communities in western Honduras.

GUATEMALA
ADEP (Displaced People's Association for Development of Peten). Land rights and community organizing. Loan funds for women's micro-businesses. Peten.

AMOCAN (Campesino Movement of the North - 29 of December). Land legalization, community organizing and development. Peten.

ASCRA (Rabinal Achi, Rio Negro Campesino Association). Survivors of Rio Negro massacres demand justice and indemnity from State, World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. Baja Verapaz.

Buena Vista community. Loan fund to install water project for returned-refugees. Santa Ana Huista, Huehuetenango.

CEIBA (Association for Community Promotion and Development. Conference on biodiversity for community leaders from Chiapas and Central America.

CIEP (Center for Research and Popular Education). Organizational development training with displaced populations in Peten. Women's empowerment training in Rabinal and Peten.

CONIC (National Indigenous and Campesino Organization). Legal and activism work, throughout Guatemala, for landless campesino and worker's movement.

FUNCEDESCRI (Community Development Training Center). Community development and micro-enterprise projects. School for sustainable agriculture and forest management. Quiche, Alta Verapaz and Totonicapan.

Jonathan Moller Photo Project. Book of photos and commentary for Guatemalans and traveling exhibits in North America, of 10 years of photograph work.

Rio Negro/ Sahomax Farm. Agricultural production for survivors of the Rio Negro massacres. Alta Verapaz.

Ximbaxuc Community. Water project for war-affected community. Quiche.