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Despite Annulment, Genocide Trial a Breakthrough for Justice and Truth

Posted 23 May 2013 | By | Categories: Central America | 1 Comment

The court’s decision openly violates legal precepts and demonstrates the lack of independence of the court to the powerful economic and political groups. Nonetheless, the genocide trial opened a window to justice and truth–the fundamental bases for building peace.

‘I don’t want to die without seeing justice’: Sexual Slavery During Guatemala’s Armed Conflict

Posted 17 October 2012 | By | Categories: Arms, Caribbean, Central America, Citizen Action, Gender, Indigenous People, Military | 1 Comment

Fifteen brave Guatemalan women from the indigenous qeqchí people testified before the High Risk Court in Guatemala City on Sept. 24-28, as part of the first criminal trial for sexual slavery and rape during the armed conflict. This legal action is historically transcendent, not only for being the first time that sexual violence during the armed conflict in Guatemala has come to trial, but also because it is the first trial for sexual slavery that has been brought to a national court. Previous cases have been presented in international courts.