Dora María Téllez: #DontLetDoraDie
Join our campaign, #DontLetDoraDie, with a massive outpouring of support on Monday, August 22, 2022 – to honor Dora María’s leadership and call for her immediate release from prison....
18 Aug
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22 Sep
What does building a human rights movement look like?
“It’s not about immigrant rights, it’s about human rights. We are all human.” So began a transformative weekend of leadership training by Gabriela Castañeda of the Movement for Immigrant Rights in Pennsylvania (MILPA), part of our upcoming documentary film Borderland. The core idea at the...
28 May
100 Years of Solitude, Colombia Beloved Land
Let me start with a personal note: I first arrived in Cartagena, Colombia many years ago shortly after being enthralled by Gabriel García Márquez’s magnificent novel “100 Years of Solitude,” a story that lit my imagination and in many ways set the course of my...
07 Apr
Immigration Lawyer Carlos Spector Declares Asylum Case of Maya-Ixil Human Rights Defenders “The Most Significant I’ve Ever Had”
We share the latest developments in the asylum case for Francisco Chávez and Gaspar Cobo, whom we are following as part of our feature film BORDERLAND....
03 Sep
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CARLOS COY AND THE ASSASSINATIONS OF BENITO MARIA AND MISAEL LÓPEZ
Human rights defenders are once again at grave risk in Guatemala....
20 Jan
The Best Human Rights Films of 2019: Physicians for Human Rights’ Picks
Our colleagues at Physicians for Human Rights rounded up the best human rights films of 2019 and a look ahead to 2020 (including BORDERLAND!)...
06 Sep
As a FARC Leader Announces Return to Arms, Colombian Community Organizers and Rights Defenders like Ninfa Cruz Face Grave Risks
We hope to create virtual networks to accompany vulnerable activists, sending a signal to those that would harm them that "the world is watching."...
03 Sep
U.S. SITS BACK AS IMPUNITY ROARS BACK INTO GUATEMALA
The forces of impunity in Guatemala are roaring back with a vengeance and their closing of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala on September 3, 2019 is a stark manifestation of that. ...
05 Sep
The CICIG Touched a Raw Nerve in the Military and Economic elite
The CICIG* Touched a Raw Nerve in the Military and Economic elite By Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj In 500 years, no one has even come close to achieving the high level work that the CICIG team has carried out – except for the government of Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán...
14 Nov
View from the cutting room: Post #1
[caption id="attachment_16902" align="alignleft" width="237"] Photo credit: Dana Lixenberg[/caption] In these monthly postings my hope is to part the curtains and give you a glimpse behind the scenes where Skylight films get put together. I am the chief slicer and dicer, wielding my electronic knife with pleasurable...
