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According to the International Human Rights Law Group, the Guatemalan criminal justice system is to blame for the poor human rights Guatemala faces. Cerezo announced it would now be their responsibility. [15] The Guatemalan criminal justice system is supposed to work with the court to punish those who violate human rights.
Iduvina Hernández (born 1955) is a Guatemalan journalist and internationally-known human rights activist. Her work has involved analyzing democracy and state security. Specifically, her research has focused on the violence which occurred during the Guatemalan Civil War and rebuilding the structures to support the country's democ
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said on Friday that democracy in Guatemala "remains in danger," despite election winner Bernardo ...
Additionally, Guatemala is legally bound to the January 2018 Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling, which held that same-sex marriage and the recognition of one's gender identity on official documents are human rights protected by the American Convention on Human Rights. [2]
Human rights abuses in Guatemala (7 C, 7 P) A. Guatemalan human rights activists (4 C, 18 P) ... This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 22:40 (UTC).
It was created on December 12, 2006, when the United Nations and Guatemala signed a treaty-level agreement setting up CICIG as an independent body to support the Public Prosecutor's Office (Procuraduría General de la Nación), the National Civilian Police (Policía Nacional Civil) and other state institutions in the investigation of sensitive and difficult cases.
In May 2015, a video was released online of the lynching of a sixteen-year-old girl in the village of Río Bravo. The video shows a crowd of over a hundred people—including women and children—watching as the girl is punched and kicked by vigilantes. A member of the crowd then douses the girl in gasoline and burns her alive.
In 1989, it started the Guatemala Human Rights UPDATE, a bi-weekly human rights publication. [1] This was published through 2009. In the early 1990s, the Commission supported, among others, the efforts of Jennifer Harbury , an American lawyer who worked to learn about the whereabouts and fate of her husband, the Maya guerrilla commander Efraín ...