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 ...

The plants that grow these sweet fruits are cultivated with extreme care. But those who pamper them are despised and ...

GUATEMALA CITY — More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women during their efforts to crush an insurgency in the country’s 36-year civil war, a court on ...

A German supermarket and its supplier are under fire for alleged human right violations against Indigenous communities in Guatemala, where much of their palm oil is sourced. Since 2019, human rights ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Ms. Lux played a significant role in documenting specific forms of violence that women and Indigenous Peoples underwent during the country’s civil conflict.

Indigenous women stand next to an altar they created outside the Supreme Court as they wait for an expected ruling, by a different court, in a case against three former paramilitary fighters who were ...