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• Pregnant and trapped: Guatemala’s child sex abuse crisis

  By kevodell on October 10, 2025 • ( 0 )

  In late 2022, Anja Popp presented an episode of Unreported World which looked at teen pregnancies among Indigenous Maya as a result of rape and sexual assault. There is a silent crisis of abuse and child pregnancies robbing a generation… Read More ›

• This is how survivors and victims’ families experienced the “bittersweet” ruling in the Hogar Seguro case

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  María José Longo Bautista has written on the website of Agencia Ocote a piece on the reaction of friends and relatives, of the victims, to the verdicts handed down in the Hogar Seguro case. The Agencia Ocote website hosts a… Read More ›

• Six former officials convicted in Guatemala for the deaths of 41 minors in a fire

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The teenagers were being held in a state-run home in 2017. The court orders an investigation into former president Jimmy Morales. Sofía Menchú writes in El País América on the outcome of the trial against state functionaries with regard to… Read More ›

• New York Times: The 36 Maya Achí Women who fought back

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The New York Times recently presented an interactive photo-essay on the 36 Maya Achí women and their struggle to access justice for the human rights violations the women suffered during Guatemala’s Internal Armed Conflict. . The piece containing photographs and… Read More ›

• The Fight for Human Rights Continues in Guatemala

  By kevodell on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  A recent update from Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) highlighted the continuing struggle for human rights in the country. The update contained information on the following: Indigenous Rights Guatemala and the International Community Criminalization You can read the full update… Read More ›

• Are you interested in becoming a field volunteer with PBI?

  By kevodell on August 21, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Peace Brigades International is looking for field volunteers for their Guatemala team and Mexico team. The deadline for applications to work in Guatemala is 5th October 2025. The deadline for applications to work in Mexico is 7th September. Our friends… Read More ›

• After 13 years of resistance against mining, La Puya reaffirms its commitment to defending the territory.

  By kevodell on July 26, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Earlier this year, La Puya celebrated its 13th anniversary as a Comunidad en Resistencia in oppostion to the imposition of a gold mine on its territory. Derik Mazariegos posted an article on the celebrations in Prensa Comunitaria. On March 2,… Read More ›

• Criminalization and Judicial Terrorism against Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala

  By kevodell on July 15, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The recent arrests of two Maya leaders is emblematic of increasing repression and criminalization of Indigenous peoples by the Guatemalan state. Giovanni Batz writes in NACLA of the recent arrests of the Indigenous Maya leaders, Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán,… Read More ›

• “It saddens me that Semilla has been unable to uphold the party’s values”

  By kevodell on July 15, 2025 • ( 0 )

  Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro English of the fracturing of Movimiento Semilla, the party of Bernardo Arévalo, and talks with Social anthropologist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, a Maya K’iche’ social anthropologist who participated more than a decade ago in… Read More ›

• GHRC – El Quetzal (Summer 2025)

  By kevodell on June 28, 2025 • ( 0 )

  The Summer 2025 edition of El Quetzal, from The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC), has recently been published. It features an interview with Eva Siomara Sosa, a former prosecutor who worked as sub-director of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity… Read More ›

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