A member of a trade union has been killed in the village of El Semillero in the department of Escuintla, some 150 kilometres from Guatemala City. Several of his ...
Guillermo Chen’s house was shot at six times on the evening of 5 March 2008. He is director of the non-governmental organization Fundación Nueva Esperanza, Río ...
On 12 February 2008 the Congress of Guatemala approved Decree 06-2008, known as the “Law regulating the commuting of sentence for those condemned to death”, which ...
Amnesty International welcomed Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom's statement that military archives will be opened but called on all those responsible for human ...
In an open letter sent today, Amnesty International urged Guatemalan president Álvaro Colom not to reinstate the death penalty and instead to look for more effe
In this letter Amnesty International highlights some of the concerns regarding human rights that were voiced to the candidates during the recent electoral campaign ...
Fredy Peccerelli, head of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (Fundación de Antropología Forense Guatemala - FAFG), his brother Gianni Peccerelli, his ...
In this submission, Amnesty International provides information under sections B, C and D. This includes concerns over shortcomings in Guatemalan legislation relating ...