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Dr. Catherine Nolin

 
UNBC GEOGRAPHY IN 
GUATEMALA 2012



GUATE 2012 Poster 
 
Available October 2011:
 
For details, please contact Dr. Catherine Nolin - nolin@unbc.ca & see previous field school sites at: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/guatemala_2010/index.html
 
UNBC GEOGRAPHY IN
 
GUATEMALA 2010


GUATE 2010 Group
Geography professor Catherine Nolin (far left) ran her fourth Field School Delegation to Guatemala from May 9th - 27th, 2010. Dr. Nolin & Grahame Russell of Rights Action, along with 4 undergrad and 5 grad students, visited regions affected by historical & contemporary violence and mining in that country. Additionally, they met with UNBC adjunct professor Fredy Peccerelli's FAFG team conducting exhumations of mass graves in urban and rural Guatemala. 
 
 
Participants 2010:
Back Row Standing (L-R): Magdalena, Nelson, Ashley Gill, Miranda Seymour, Alexandra Pederson, Sebastian
Far Bench (L-R): JP Laplante, Claudette Bois, Erica Henderson, & Steve Porter
Front Bench(L-R): Dr. Catherine Nolin, young boy, Dana Pidherny & Nate Einbinder

UPDATE OCTOBER 2010
 
 
Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell of Rights Action (along with the great UNBC students who accompanied us) want to share our most updated Human Rights Complaint that we submitted on October 18th to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs Critics, MPs, Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala Leeann McKechnie, and many others. This is not a casual letter of concern but a demand for action and accountability. Please share far & wide and write your own letters to your own politicians. Click on the link above for the full text of the Complaint (PDF) or http://www.rightsaction.org/articles/Complaint_HR_&Guate_Mining.html  
Women of Lote 8 and La Paz Photo: James Rodriguez, mimundo.org who traveled with us in August 2010
 


UPDATE - JULY 2010
The UNBC Geography Field School Delegation & Grahame Russell of Rights Action formally submitted a Human Rights Violation Complaint to the Canadian Embassy on May 25, 2010 and, after not receiving a reply, re-submitted it to the Minster of Foreign Affairs on July 5, 2010. The formal complaint is found below as Dispatch #9. To date, we have receive no replies from our government representatives.
 
Other Sources which Posted the Human Rights Violation Complaint:
 
 

Dispatches from the Field
The delegation is sending regular updates so check back regularly.

Rights Action  
by Catherine Nolin, May 11, 2010
by Catherine Nolin, 12 May 2010
by Claudette Bois, 12 May 2010
by Alexandra Pedersen, 19 May 2010
Everardo Dispatch #5 - Untitled Poem by Miranda Seymour, 23 May 2010
Los TresDispatch #6 The Rights Action Boot Camp - Río Negro by Catherine Nolin, 22 May 2010
by Grahame Russell, May 31, 2010
by Catherine Nolin, 25 May 2010
 
by UNBC Field School Participants & Grahame Russell of Rights Action, 5 July 2010
by JP Laplante, June 17, 2010
by JP Laplante, June 17, 2010
Women of Lote 8 and La PazDispatch #11 UPDATED Formal Human Rights Violation Complaint
by Catherine Nolin, Grahame Russell of Rights Action and the UNBC Geography Field School participants, 18 October 2010

 
Daily Photos & commentary:
 
 
2010
GUATE 2010 Group 
2008
GUATE 2008 Group 
2006
GUATE 2006 Group 
 2004
GUATE 2004 Group 
 
 
 
 

 


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