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There have been signature campaigns to stop this bill, including one by “AllOutAction”, that has 17, 250 signatures as of November 2024. [22] From the 2023 Human Rights Watch, it was reported that individuals in Guatemala cannot self report their gender for official government documents.
The country’s official homicide rate dropped from 106 per 100,000 people in 2015 to 2.4 per 100,000 in 2023. But Human Rights Watch noted that “a lack of transparency and reports of data ...
International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala organization was first established on December 12, 2005. After years of human rights violation in Guatemala, government officials began leading towards creating an established organization that would investigate the many variety of cases that were left unsolved.
Human Rights Watch claimed that these arrests disproportionately burdened the most socio-economically disadvantaged Salvadorans. [8] The United States Department of State released a report documenting alleged human rights violations in El Salvador from 2022. This report alleges that the state of exception in El Salvador has put more pressure on ...
Guatemala had in 2023 one of the most tense electoral processes in its recent history, after the Prosecutor's Office tried to invalidate the election's results and prevent Arevalo from being sworn ...
FILE PHOTO: Guatemalan migrants walk after arriving at La Aurora Air Force Base on a deportation flight from the U.S., in Guatemala City, Guatemala, November 8, 2024.
11 January: 2023 Guatemalan general election: Former Minister of the Interior Napoleón Barrientos is arrested for failing to comply with his duties for not using force to evict the blockades and demonstrations that occurred in October, which called for the resignation of Attorney General María Consuelo Porras.
An amnesty law passed by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador five days after the release of the Truth Commission report prevented judicial prosecution of perpetrators of human rights abuses. The peace accords also required the establishment of the Ad Hoc Commission to evaluate the human rights record of the ESAF officer corps.