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Helen Beatriz Mack Chang (born 19 January 1952) is a Guatemalan businesswoman and human rights activist. She became an outspoken advocate for human rights after her sister, anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang, was assassinated by the Guatemalan military on 11 September 1990.
Helen Mack Chang is an internationally recognised human rights defender, who has contributed to peace, democracy and reconciliation in Guatemala. In the country marred by decades of armed conflict, she emerged as an unrelenting fighter for justice in the aftermath of her sister’s assassination.
Jan 27, 2015 · Merida apparently suffered the same fate as Myrna Mack Chang after discovering who was behind her death. In recent years Helen Mack Chang has continued to seek judicial and police...
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The committee recognizes with deep respect the courageous, unselfish, and tireless efforts of Helen Beatriz Mack Chang, Myrna's sister and the self-appointed private prosecutor in the case. 3 Without her initiative in leading the prosecution forward through institutional barriers and resistance, the legal proceedings would not have advanced as ...
Losing a mother and a sister. In 1990, anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang, Lucrecia’s mother and Helen’s sister, was murdered by the Presidential General Staff, a now-defunct group within the Guatemalan Army. The army murdered Myrna to hide her studies on social displacement after Guatemala’s 36-year-long Civil War.
Apr 18, 2002 · Chief petitioner in the legal proceedings that seek justice in the assassination of her sister, the anthropologist Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang, and a member of the Commission for Strengthening Justice in Guatemala and the Center for Justice and International Civil Rights.
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Sep 18, 2019 · From May, 26 - 29, 2019 Guatemalan human rights activist and Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, Helen Mack, as well as 17 PhD students from all over the world will presented and discussed...
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