Key Ideas Mark Hillsdon wrote recently, in Mongabay, about initiatives bringing ancient Maya knowledge to bear on the contemporary challenges facing Guatemalan farmers in ensuring sustainable practices. The writer looks at the history of agrochemical use in Guatemala and how… 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 ›
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 ›
GHRC – El Quetzal (Summer 2026)
She set an example of love, courage, and service for all whose lives she touched. The Summer 2026 edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. The recent renewal of key leadership within the justice… Read More ›
PBI Guatemala – Applying to become a field volunteer
“It was a pivotal experience to work and live for 12 months alongside my team and learn directly from human rights defenders.” – Former PBI Guatemala volunteer PBI’s field volunteer programme is one of the most direct ways to support… Read More ›
Guatemala’s Defense Chief Thinks He Can Clean Up the Army — and Keep Trump Happy
Yuliana Ramazzini has an interesting interview in El Faro English with the Guatemalan Defense Minister, Henry Sáenz. He talks about the roll of the Guatemala defense forces today, rooting out corruption within state security forces, how he views the relationship… Read More ›
Opportunity to reverse criminalisation of lawyers in Guatemala following new Attorney General appointment
Shared by Amnesty UK, Lawyers for Lawyers has joined the statement of the International Mission of Jurists for Guatemala following the appointment of Gabriel García Luna as the new Attorney General of the Republic and Head of the Public Prosecutor’s… Read More ›
After the Elections, the Debate Guatemala Keeps Putting Off
Juan Francisco Sandoval, the former head of Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI). writes in El Faro English about the need for Guatemala to discuss and tackle the systemic issues at the heart of the judicial system. There is… Read More ›
New Attorney General Must End Criminalization
Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez shares, through the Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), his thoughts following the inauguration of Gabriel Estuardo García Luna as the new Attorney General. He examines how, under the administration of María Consuelo Porras, the Guatemalan judicial… Read More ›
Guatemala: New Attorney General appointed, Porras’s disastrous tenure ended
Marlies Stappers and Denis Martinez write in Impunity Watch about the newly appointed Attorney General, Gabriel García Luna, and the disastrous legacy of the previous AG, Consuelo Porras. The piece covers the various attempts of the incumbent AG to remain… Read More ›
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