“The struggle for accountability in Guatemala has scored an important victory,” said José Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas Division of Human ...

(Guatemala City, February 12, 2002) Women in Guatemala's largest female-dominated labor sectors face persistent sex discrimination and abuse, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today. The ...

There is a bitter joke circulating among many Guatemalans ever since the nation’s 36-year civil war ended in 1996: Beware the peace, they chide, because now the government is fighting everyone.

INGENIO DE GUARAQUICHE, Guatemala -- Elvin Munesh hadn't eaten in five days, but he let the wedge of apple the aid worker had just given him dangle in his fingers. The toddler wearing a tiny, blue ...

Pope John Paul has arrived in Guatemala City, the second stop on his three-country Americas trip. Hundreds of thousands of faithful in this largely Catholic country came out to welcome him. After ...

The United Nations World Food Program will extend its emergency operation for Guatemala until February of 2003. The program is aimed at saving the lives of thousands of children suffering acute ...

The organisation referred to a string of human rights violations and the apparent inability of the justice system to respond to them, not least because of the victimisation of legal personnel working ...