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 ...

Danville resident Dr. Erica McElroy founded Casa Materna Atitlán, a maternal health clinic and birthing center in the rural mountain town of San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala, in 2014 along with Dr.

A Guatemalan appeals court suspended on Thursday the trial of 92-year-old retired General Benedicto Lucas García for the extermination of indigenous people during the civil war (1960-1996), just as ...

A Guatemalan court sentenced three former paramilitaries each to 40 years in prison for crimes against humanity for raping six Indigenous Maya Achi women between 1981 and 1983, at the height of ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Friday, in a ...

“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 ...

The body of María Florinda Ríos Pérez, a Guatemalan woman killed in Indiana, has been returned to her native country. Ríos, a ...

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