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 ...

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 ...

A German supermarket and its supplier are under fire for alleged human right violations against Indigenous communities in Guatemala, where much of their palm oil is sourced. Since 2019, human rights ...

Guatemalan textile workers describe brutal conditions inside the factories making clothes for some of the biggest brands in the US.

A trend where developed nations frame the export of secondhand clothing to developing countries as a sustainable (and perhaps charitable) act has been ongoing for decades. The idea is to send garments ...

Sarah Rivers, a St. Louis-native and the current multi-state event coordinator for The GOD’S CHILD Project — a nonprofit ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday arrested an Indigenous leader of nationwide protests in 2023 that sought to ensure then President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s transition to power ...

The United Nations has reaffirmed that gender equality is vital to achieving lasting peace as it marks 25 years of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) ...

“I grew up in a modest family and married at the age of 15, so I could not finish school. But I was able to continue my studies at the Center,” said Isabel Aracely Tzoy Tzoc. Like Isabel, most girls ...