Ms Ramona Margarita Domingo Díaz:

I thank the committee very much for the space, for listening to us and listening to the current situation in Guatemala. In conclusion, I ask the committee members to keep supporting us as Ireland has been doing so that our wealth will not continue to be taken, so that we will not continue to live through these abuses and violations, and that our water and land will not be taken away to make others rich. We ask for the committee's support in protecting the defenders of territory, in protecting a future of dignified life so that there can be real participation by all people, that our rights to a dignified life are respected and that Mother Earth, including our rivers, is respected. It is so important that Mayan children are able to dream of a future and that women are not criminalised for defending their water, for example. It is so important to listen to the Mayan people, to our cosmovision, to our right to actual free determination and to note that the defence of territory is not an act of resistance but is an act of love for life itself.