Towards Long-Term Peace: Eradicating Trafficking in Guatemala and Beyond - Peace News Network

The trial of three civilian ex-patrolmen, who are tried for sexual violence against six Achí indigenous Mayan women during the war in Guatemala, reaches its end.

Towards Long-Term Peace: Eradicating Trafficking in Guatemala and Beyond - Peace News Network

In post-war Guatemala, global, regional, and local processes make disadvantaged people vulnerable to exploitation. After the end of a civil war that lasted from 1960 to 1996, high levels of direct and structural violence persist, particularly as gang violence. Understanding the dynamics shaping peacebuilding in post-conflict societies is fundamental to achieving informed policies. My research proposes to consider the structures […] The post Towa…

In this new novel, you look at a quest for very special origins... Yes. It's the story of Maya, a young girl who was adopted little in Guatemala because her adoptive paternal grandmother is Guatemalan. After the death of her adoptive mother, Maya may have been very surrounded by her family, but she feels alone and ends up feeling a call from her home country. She then manages to convince her father to take her to visit her. The story begins as a…

The trial of three Guatemalans accused of sexual violence against 36 Mayan women during the internal armed conflict advanced this Tuesday. At the sixth hearing, anthropologist José Ángel Zapata explained how the sexual violations “destroyed Mayan culture,” a damage with social repercussions that persist more than 40 years later. Read also: El Chicharra accepts extradition to the United States, but its process in Guatemala delays the transfer Cul…

Guatemala City - The trial of three Guatemalans accused of sexual violence against 36 Mayan women during the internal armed conflict advanced this Tuesday with the intervention of an anthropologist who explained how these violations “destroyed Mayan culture” and have social repercussions that last more than 40 years later. The entry Sexual violence against indigenous women in Guatemala “destroyed Mayan culture” was first published in Proceso Dig…