The traditional Mayan ceremony was held to mark the conviction of three men for committing crimes against the women in the ...

Twenty-five years ago, the international community agreed a new approach to women’s inclusion in peace processes in what came ...

GUATEMALA CITY — More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country’s 36-year civil war, a court on ...

Compilation by Frieda Werden of a production by Maria Martin and a speech by Rigoberta Menchu. Frieda Werden is an American and Canadian radio producer, co-founder and producer of the weekly radio ...

Wading into the water and walking along the beach, a hundred indigenous women collected accumulated garbage this Saturday on a shore of the paradisiacal Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, a natural wonder ...

Join the Cohen Institute in welcoming Otilia Lux de Cotí, a pioneering leader in indigenous peoples' and women's rights in Guatemala and internationally, as part of our spring 2025 series on Guatemala ...

SOLOLA, Guatemala (AP) — The law works as it has for centuries in the Guatemalan indigenous community of Solola: Townsfolk bring grievances and local authorities make rulings, usually with a speed ...

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 on April 8, 2024. A Guatemalan ...

Facing institutionalized violence from the government and opposition groups, some Indigenous activists in Guatemala have no choice but to flee. Living in exile has been heartbreaking for Lucía Ixchíu.

Medical providers in the United States who discuss the use of contraceptives with Maya women migrants might discover strong reluctance and complex beliefs about the social and physical benefits of ...