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UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights visits Guatemala
Amnesty International communicated that the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights visited Guatemala between 18 and 28 August 2026 and published their statement on their findings from that visit. Highlights included: Indigenous rights: The Working Group noted that… Read More ›
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GHRC – Recent Developments in Justice and Human Rights
Last month, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) presented an update on developments on Justice and Human Rights in Guatemala and some of the issues covered included: PNC Attempts Second Eviction of Indigenous Community Guatemala’s National Civil Police (PNC) on… Read More ›
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‘They take the water, the springs dry up’: fear as Guatemalan goldmine plan is revived
Euan Wallace and Martina Mariano write in The Guardian about the ongoing struggle of the La Lima community, near Asunción Mita in the Department of Jutiapa, close to the border with El Salvador. It is a story replicated across Guatemala… Read More ›
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Guatemala Frees Indigenous Leaders After 15 Months in Jail
TeleSur English recently noted the release, from detention, of Indigenous leaders who had been in detention for 15 months without trial. Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán had also been designated as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International and they responded… Read More ›
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Guatemala’s Future with the United States is Sealed at a Port
Over the past year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received $170 million from the Guatemalan government for road and port infrastructure projects that are deepening its dependence on the U.S. Juan Luis García writes in the North American… Read More ›
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GHRC – Recent Developments in Justice and Human Rights
Last month, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) presented an update on developments on Justice and Human Rights in Guatemala and some of the issues covered included: MP Ends Effort to Place Zamora in Detention Court Cancels Arrest Warrants for… Read More ›
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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
Brian Munoz writes on the St. Louis Public Radio website, part of the NPR network, about the consequences of U.S. migration policies on a Guatemalan couple living in Overland, Missouri. This is a story of the human costs of the… Read More ›
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Ancient Maya knowledge helps Guatemalan farmers cut agrochemical use
Key Ideas Guatemalan farmers are turning to organic pesticides, rooted in traditional practices and sustainable ideas, to replace expensive synthetic alternatives. Using a mixture of locally available plants, and ideas about farming passed down by ancestors, they are creating natural… Read More ›
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Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America
In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend on it. Mark Hillsdon writes in The Guardian as part… Read More ›
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Pacoj Buries Its Victims of the War in Guatemala
In a rural hamlet in Chimaltenango, the remains of dozens of victims of the Guatemalan armed conflict piled up in a dingy storage room for decades. Now, their families have begun a burial that the government had promised but never… Read More ›
