Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are annual publications on the human rights conditions in countries and regions outside the United States, mandated by U.S. law to be submitted annually by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State to the United States Congress.
The United States Department of State says that the U.S., as a member of the ‘Los Amigos de Guatemala’ coalition, along with Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Norway, and Venezuela, played an important role in peace agreements moderated by the UN, provided public support. The United States strongly supports the six substantial peace agreements and ...
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 ...
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.
A Guatemalan appeals court on Friday disobeyed a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights by ordering the release of three former high-ranking military officers convicted of crimes ...
From the 2023 Human Rights Watch, it was reported that individuals in Guatemala cannot self report their gender for official government documents. It must be the gender assigned at birth, and the name assigned at birth.
The rise of communism in Guatemala was not connected to U.S.S.R. due to statements from Nikolai Leonov the former KGB intelligence officer in charge of Central American intelligence [2] as well as push back by the Soviet union and Guatemalan ambassadors in the UN in reaction to U.S. accusations of Soviet Intervention within The Guatemalan government [3]
According to the United States assessment of Guatemala in relation to human trafficking, Guatemala was on the Tier 2 watch list for human trafficking in 2017. [1] The country was placed at Tier 2 in 2023. [17] In 2023, the Organised Crime Index noted that the crime was carried out by small local gangs as well as larger organised groups. [18]