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Voices from the Migrant Caravan
“There is no way to live there, we don´t know how to survive” says Margarita, 34. She has left her home country of ...
Read Article“It has been 5 years without rain”
In a country where violence, corruption and discrimination towards indigenous people is common, people are trying to sur...
Read ArticleJohn McColgan launches photography book in aid of Trócaire
John visited both countries in his role as Trócaire Ambassador. Best known for his work with Riverdance and Tyrone Prod...
Read ArticleRios Montt death closes bloody chapter for Guatemala
For others, particularly the survivors and victims of the genocide, his death represents a denial of justice from t...
Read ArticleHuman rights activist falsely imprisoned in Guatemala
Abelino Chub Caal, a human rights activists who Trócaire supports in Guatemala has been imprisoned since Feb 2017 under...
Read ArticleInternational Human Rights Award acknowledges Indigenous women’s historic legal victory in Guatemala
Last year history was made in Guatemala as former Lieutenant Esteelmer Reyes Girón and military commissioner Heriberto ...
Read ArticleCorruption-accused President of Guatemala given reprieve by Congress
Jimmy Morales was voted President of Guatemala in 2016. He campaigned on a platform of honest governance, after the prev...
Read ArticleEU and Latin America: Human rights cannot be the cost of trade
The EU has increased its imports from Latin America by 50% in the last decade. It is the region’s third largest tr...
Read ArticleMeeting genocide survivors in Guatemala
Lisa Naughten, a Trócaire supporter, shares her experiences of travelling with Trócaire to Guatemala in February ...
Read ArticleNovember 12, 2016 On November 12, 2016, in Guatemala City at around 5:30 pm, Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima was shot twice ...
Read ArticleHistoric victory for women’s rights and justice in Guatemala
The plaintiffs at the trial. Photo: Mujeres Transformando el Mundo The accused and their lawyers at the Su...
Read Article“No one can shut me up for being a woman”
I visited Doña Tina Velasquez Garcia, who is 65 and who lives in a rural community just outside the town of Pochuta, ab...
Read ArticleTime of change in Guatemala: a new era of justice and democracy
The 2nd of September 2015 will be remembered throughout Guatemala as an historic victory for the Guatemalan people in th...
Read ArticleRose Hogan, Trócaire’s policy advisor on sustainable agriculture, reports from Guatemala on the global lessons that c...
Read ArticlePresident of Ireland marks retirement of Trócaire’s Sally O’Neill
Yesterday, the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, marked the retirement of leading human rights advocate and ...
Read ArticleLand for 110 violently evicted Guatemalan families
As the sun rose on the Polochic valley 525 women, men and children belonging to various communities began a twelve hour ...
Read ArticleA testimony of survival and dignity in the face of genocide
A CIDSE delegation of European bishops and priests has travelled to Guatemala to show their solidarity with survivors of...
Read ArticleCelebrating life in Guatemala one year on from the historic genocide trial
By Sally O’Neill, Head of Region, Latin America “We truly believe that in order for peace to exist i...
Read ArticleReclaiming historic memory and public space in Guatemala
by Aisling Walsh, Guatemala The 25th of February 2014 marked the 15th anniversary of the publication of ‘Memory...
Read ArticleFood Not Fuel: Evicted families in Guatemala still face an uncertain future
Manuel Laj Ical and his daughter Wilma at their house in 8 de agosto. Right: Juana Laj Ical finishing one of her handmad...
Read ArticleThe Gift of Safe Motherhood: transforming and saving lives in Guatemala
by Michelle Hoctor Small hands grab the breezy pink curtain which hangs over the low entrance door to the house of 57 ye...
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