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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigenous women stand next to an altar they created outside the Supreme Court as they wait for an expected ruling, by a different ...

In Guatemala, he led the Catholic Church’s human rights office. His brother, a dictator who took power in a coup, was ...

The Guardian reports the historic trial of former base commander Esteelmer Reyes Girón and former regional military commissioner Heriberto Valdez Asij will begin on Monday. Reyes is charged with ...

One of Central America's most infamous former dictators died this weekend. In March of 1982, Efrain Rios Montt seized power in Guatemala. That country was in the middle of a civil war, and the new ...

GUATEMALA CITY — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the Guatemalan government was responsible for human rights violations in the disappearance of four Indigenous human rights ...

Guatemalan Achi women, alleged victims of sexual violence during the internal armed conflict (1960-1996), take a rest alongside supporters during a demonstration at the beginning of the trial against ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal ...

* Guatemala police archives could prompt civil war charges * Official human rights ombudsman to disclose contents * The files are the latest fallout from 1960-1996 conflict By Sarah Grainger GUATEMALA ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — 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 ...