The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations ...

During my fieldwork, I talked to survivors of the Guatemalan genocide (1980-1982) to determine how their lives had been affected by the civil war.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights released its ruling in the Case of Pérez Lucas et al v. Guatemala on Thursday, finding the State responsible for the forced disappearance of four Indigenous ...

Ixil Indigenous Jacinta Ceto, survivor of the Guatemalan civil war, attends the hearing against the retired general Benedicto Lucas Garcia at a court in Guatemala City (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP) ...

At the time, Guatemala was in the midst of a bloody civil war that started in 1960 and didn’t end until the signing of peace accords in 1996. Armed forces repeatedly attacked the village of Sepur ...

His 17 months in office were considered some of the most ruthless of the war, with entire towns of indigenous Mayans - who were accused of harbouring insurgents - wiped out. Guatemala's civil war ...

As part of the Northern Triangle, along with El Salvador and Honduras, Guatemala is considered one of the world’s most dangerous places. Still recovering from a deadly, decades-long civil war that ...

A Guatemalan former soldier has been sentenced to more than 5,000 years in prison for his role in a massacre during the country's civil war. More than 200 people were killed in the village of Dos ...