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Achieving the overall defense of human Rights of the people of Guatemala, taking the cultural composition, economic, social and political charactaristics into account.
Defend and promote the specific rights for indigenous people.
Permanently incorporate the national ethnic element to the Office of Human Rights

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Education

Educating for transformative action, promoting social participation and the civic exercise of human rights. Contribute in the creation of a Guatemalan population united in social networks and organizations, inducing the transformation of reality in favor of the dignity and full respect of human rights. os humanos.
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Advocacy Worker.

The defense of the rights of workers aims to address the problems of one of the most susceptible sectors of society to violations of their human and labor rights. más susceptibles de sufrir violaciones a sus derechos humanos y laborales.
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General Objective:

Protect workers´ human rights recognized by the Political Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international treaties and conventions accepted and ratified by Guatemala.
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It´s an institution of Human Rights, created in 1991 and institutionalized in 1998, whose pupose is to protect, defend and promote human rights of woman in Guatemala.

What to do:

Promote, disseminate, seek, observe, analyze, investigate and develop respect for the rights of woman. To monitor compliance with laws and socio-economic and cultural relevance of national policies, with the aim of ensuring respect for the rights of woman through high-impact strategic actions.

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Every woman has right to:

Live free from abuse and violence.
Not recieve any kind of aggression.
Report any form of abuse

Advocay of children and youth:

Works through the Office of Children and Adolescents. The office of Human Rights deals with all kind of complaints of violation of rights of minors.

Human Rights

Are the powers, priveleges and freedoms enjoyed by a person arising from their dignity, the States and laws that govern these rights are obliged to recognize, disseminate, protect and safeguard these rights so that they will not be violated. All people, regardless of their age, relegion, sex or social status, enjoy these rights, which are essential for the development of each individual person.

Areas of work of auxiliary.

As part of the institutional strengthening in terms of efficiency and control, branch offices have been grouped into geographical regions. The functions are still divided into four areas to visualize processes and assess their achievements through regional and national readings that build social indicators.

Area of Law Enforcement.

Involves the process of consulting, support and assistence in processing remote field information from receipt of the complain until the final resolution. Auxilary direcly involves - departemental, regional, municipal or mobile – the officer, the investigator, as apropriate, the coordinator of woman.
The functions are carried out under the mystique of teamwork and a service model based on treating victimology, and since this aproach had been able to implement a new model of care to the complaint and the proceeding of cases, this area has been of great importance to the role of the Information Technology Unit, whose support has been implemented in a database that allows recording and internal control in cases.

Policy Enforcement Area.

La Unidad de Incidencia and the Public Policy has several advisers and policy enforment officials, that cover different regions of the country and maintain presence in the Auxiliary Departments.
They observed the impact from local level of encouraging citizens participation in social, political and economic areas as good, having more shared responsibility towards the development of the population in conditions of equity and social justice.
This incidence is developed by the auxiliary and the public policy official with support from the educator and womar coordinator in various areas: networks, tables, circles of dialoge and participation in local institutional, organizational and regional authorities, which are strategic alliances.

Education Area.

It technically depends on the Department for Education and promotion and it developeds through two components: the formal education and citizenship education.
The first relates to the promotion, dissemination and outreach on human rights to state institutions, while public education refers to community work and civil society organizations. Each auxiliary has, at least, an educator, and some also have two or three educational outreach workers, those who favor local education and promotion of human rights, forstering a culture of peace.

Defenders Area.

They are present in several branch offices: the Office of Woman through a coordinator in charge of caring for the victim, the Advocacy of Indigenous Peoples with an indigenous regional counsel, the Defender of Children and Adolescents by the Municipal Childrens Board.

The Volunteers:

They can assist in legal, psychological, sociological and pedagogical areas, when your studing you are responsible to protect and disseminate the basic guarentees of children and youth as wel as other vulnerable familiy members, workers and the most vulnerable of the population. In other ways, support the advocacy of each area that requires help.