Educational Delegations
Rights Action leads educational delegations of North Americans to Honduras and Guatemala, during which we visit our partner groups in their home communities, where they suffer and resist the harms and violations.
Our north-south education and activism work is based on the understanding that the U.S. and Canada – governments, corporations and investors; as well as institutions such as the World Bank and IMF - help cause and benefit from the chronic human rights violations and environmental harms, repression and corruption that our partner groups suffer from and resist.
The main focus of these trips is to understand that ‘we’ – from the global north – do not come to help Hondurans and Guatemala with ‘their’ problems, but to understand how U.S., Canadian and “international community” policies and actions contribute to their harms and violations, that these are ‘our’ problems, and we must work together, north and south, to achieve justice and reparations and full respect for human rights.
UPCOMING
TESTIMONIO BOOK DELEGATION TO GUATEMALA - May 2024
Led by Grahame Russell (Rights Action)
Accompanied by Catherine Nolin (UNBC)
Grahame and Catherine recently co-edited and co-wrote several sections of Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala (2021).
Click HERE for more info. Get in touch with us if you are interested, or have any questions: info@rightsaction.org
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
- Lilla Watson
Place know as ‘Pacoxom’, high above the Mayan Achi village of Rio Negro. Here, one of the 4 large-scale “Chixoy dam” massacres was committed, March 13, 1982, by the U.S.-backed Guatemalan regime, to make way for huge investment project of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank.
Going by boat from the "Chixoy dam” wall, to the Mayan Achi village of Rio Negro.
