Outside the window, a storm gathers over Lake Atitlan. Inside, more than 50 women activists, including Guatemalan indigenous land defenders, international feminist leaders and a Nobel Peace Prize ...
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 ...
When a cabal of elites that many Guatemalans refer to as the “pact of the corrupt” tried to block the transfer of presidential power to Bernardo Arévalo in 2023, thousands of the country’s indigenous ...
A trend where developed nations frame the export of secondhand clothing to developing countries as a sustainable (and perhaps charitable) act has been ongoing for decades. The idea is to send garments ...
Joyce Bennett is an anthropologist whose research and teaching focus on sociocultural and sociolinguistic issues in Central and North America, especially as they relate to social justice. She mostly ...
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 ...
“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 ...
RSF raised the alarm over threats and violence targeting Guatemalan journalists reporting on environmental issues, especially those from Indigenous and rural communities. These reporters face a ...