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• Imperfect Justice Is Still Justice for Wartime Rape Survivors in Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada write, in El Faro, on the recent verdicts in the Achí Women Case and what justice means for the surviving victims – perhaps justice but not closure. The piece describes disturbing examples of gendered violence… Read More ›

• Witness Accuses Guatemalan President of Funding Campaign with Construction Bribes

  By kevodell on February 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  José Luis Sanz writes in El Faro about the sworn testimonies regarding bribery and campaign contributions relating to the election of President Alejandro Giammattei, and the attempts by the Attorney General’s office to put a brake to the investigations. It… Read More ›

• 10th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: challenges for their implementation in Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “The person who defends Mother Earth is unjustly accused and condemned, without evidence“ PBI-Guatemala recently published a feature on the challenges of implementing, in Guatemala, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were endorsed by the United Nations… Read More ›

• The Origins of Racism in Guatemala — An Interview with Marta Elena Casaús Arzú on Anti-Indigenous Racism

  By kevodell on February 15, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Plaza Pública published an interview with Marta Elena Casaús Arzú in 2017 by Carlos Arrazola and the subsequent English translation was published in El Faro. It is a fascinating interview on race and racism in Guatemala. Marta Elena Casaús Arzú… Read More ›

• Indigenous community takes Guatemalan land rights fight to international court

  By kevodell on February 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Sandra Cuffe write in Mongabay about a community in north east Guatemala, Agua Caliente Lote 9, which is taking a case, against the Guatemala State, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The case relates to land rights and, if… Read More ›

• Being a Judge in Guatemala: Interview with Yassmin Barrios

  By kevodell on February 12, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Andrea Rodríguez has carried out an interview with Judge Yassmin Barrios for RUDA, a Guatemalan feminist digital media platform. It gives an insight into the challenges facing one of the most important judges in Guatemala in terms of justice for… Read More ›

• Fugitive Guatemala Minister Surrenders Amid Attacks on Justice System

  By kevodell on February 10, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Alex Papadovassilakis writes in InSight Crime on the ‘spontaneous’ and ‘voluntary’ surrender of a high level fugitive, more than a year after he was charged with money laundering. A minister in the government of Jimmy Morales, he is wanted in… Read More ›

• Decades After Guatemala’s Silent Holocaust, These Indigenous Women Are Fighting to Bring Their Rapists to Justice

  By kevodell on February 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Eloise Barry writes in TIME on the fight for justice carried out by the Maya Achi women culminating in five ex-PAC members each being convicted and sentenced to 30 years. The pain endured over the years by the surviving women… Read More ›

• 25 Years After the Peace Accords, Democracy Weak in Guatemala

  By kevodell on February 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  In Guatemala, safeguards against corruption, impunity, and state violence are being dismantled by the politicians, elites, and military and some fear the return of an authoritarian state. Giovanni Batz writes in NACLA on the 25th anniversary of the signing of… Read More ›

• The Tragedy Of The Hogar Seguro: Revealing The Situation Of Guatemalan Children

  By kevodell on February 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “Guatemalan childhood is not the future but the present of Guatemala. It should matter to all of us.” ACOGUATE have posted a piece on the upcoming hearings relating to the fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, in… Read More ›