Claudia Paz y Paz has a tough job as the first female attorney general in Guatemala, one of the most violent countrie

Indigenous women were systematically gang-raped by Guatemala soldiers and members of paramilitary groups during the c

Last week, 35-year-old Carmen Virginia Tuez Franco was found murdered in Guatemala City alongside her niece Silvia Ma

Fifteen brave Guatemalan women from the indigenous q'eqchí people testified before the High Risk Court in Guat

“In the struggle to defend our territory, our natural resources, what's at stake is our very existence.”

One generally overlooked feature of the Guatemalan government and military's 36-year (1960-96) genocidal counterinsur

In 1982, the Guatemalan Army attacked a tiny village in the desolate northern region of Peten, raping, torturing and

The 36 year long civil war (1960-1996) that ravaged Guatemala, left more than 200,000 people dead and at least 100,00

A man in a mask opens a door.

“Everything changed when the soldiers arrived,” said Rosa, an Indigenous Ixil woman living in the Quich&e

The relentless wave of femicides in Guatemala, which has one of the highest female murder rates in the world, has pro

North Cauca, Colombia, June 24, 2011: The first meeting of indigenous women in resistance for the survival and autono

A United Nations envoy today welcomed the arrest of a former top Guatemalan military figure accused of genocide, war

Amnesty International today urged the Guatemalan authorities to act to stop the high numbers of women being killed ac

GUATEMALA CITY, Dec 27, 2010 (IPS) - Guatemala, it seems, is trying out a new image.

In a country where machismo is still the rule, Sandra Torres doesn't cut the demure figure of past first ladies.

When a federal court in California blocked the deportation of an undocumented Guatemalan woman this week, the case re

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Guatemalan women could possibly be eligible for political asylum

An appeals court ruling has raised the possibility that Guatemalan women will be able to seek asylum in the United St

A group of Guatemalan Indian women who were raped by army soldiers during the country's 1960-1996 civil war broke the