Republic of Guatemala

• State Department - Country Documents
• Library of Congress - Law Library of Congress (LLOC)
  • Family Reunification Laws in Selected Jurisdictions - July 2014

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • GTM43453.FE - Guatemala: The process for acquiring citizenship; possibility of losing one's citizenship; possibility of reestablishing one's citizenship; whether a child under 10 years who leaves Guatemala without the authorization of a parent can lose his or her citizenship (2003-2005) - April 2005
  • GTM43455.FE - Guatemala: The body that issues passports and government control over the issuance of passports; the possibility of this body being a private enterprise and, if so, the requirements for obtaining a passport; documents required for obtaining a passport; the time required to obtain a passport (2005) - March 2005

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• Department of Labor - Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
• Law Library of Congress - El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico: Laws governing Travel of Unaccompanied Minors - Aug. 2014

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • GTM43508.FE - Guatemala: Update to GTM43416.FE of 10 March 2005; provisions for child abduction or confinement in the context of domestic violence; possibility of filing a complaint against a parent who disappears with his or her child; procedure for a parent whose child has been taken away by the other parent (2005) - April 2005

International Organizations

• UNICEF
  • BROKEN DREAMS:Central American children’s dangerous journey to the United States.  Aug. 2016

Non Government Organization Reports

• Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

  • Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices and Challenges. 2015

• Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers - Child Soldiers Global Report - 2008
• Human Rights Watch Report
  • Guatemala's Forgotten Children: Police Violence and Abuses in Detention - July 1997

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• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government - 2021, 2020, 2019

Non-Government Organization Reports

• InSight Crime

  • Comparing Presidential Corruption Scandals in Guatemala and Brazil: Part 1. Oct. 2016

  • Guatemala Elites and Organized Crime - Sept. 2016

• Open Society Justice

  • AGAINST THE ODDS; CICIG in Guatemala. Sept. 2016

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• RIC Reports
  • The situation facing the disabled, particularly persons with speech and hearing loss - January 2000

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US Government Reports

• Congressional Research Services
  • Guatemala: 2023 Elections and U.S. Interests - July 2023

Non-Government Organization Reports

• Election Guide - Recent Elections

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• Minority Rights International
  • Guatemala Overview 2015
• Minority Rights Group International - State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - 2016, 2015

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• World Directory of Minorities - Maya

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • GTM104067.E: Domestic violence, including legislation, state protection, and services available to victims. May 2012
  • GTM101748.E - Guatemala: Recourse and protection available to a woman harassed by a police officer who had attempted to rape her or solicit sexual favors from her (2004 - December 2006) - Jan 2007
  • GTM101747.E - Guatemala: Domestic violence; recourse and services available to victims (2005 - September 2006) - December 2006
  • GTM42613.FE - Guatemala: Legal measures available to female victims of domestic violence; whether the court can order forced entry into the matrimonial home; the recurso de exhibición personal and the circumstances in which it can be ordered - May 2004
  • GTM42338.E - Guatemala: Information on domestic violence, including recourse, remedies and services for victims 2003-2004 (Replaces GTM40575.E of 19 December 2002) - March 2004
  • GTM41861.FE - Guatemala: Recourses and protection available to a woman who was harassed by a police officer who attempted to rape her or solicit sexual favors from her. Aug 2003

• Human Rights Watch
  • From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan Labor Force - 2002

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• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
• DOS CSO Report
  • Northern Triangle and Mexico Country Conditions - May 2019

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • GTM42132.E - Guatemala: Reports of attacks or killings of National Advancement Party (PAN) members and/or their families in Chacaj, Nenton department, between December 2001 and January 2002 - Oct 2003
  • GTM40476.E - Guatemala: A vigilante killing by a "civil protector" in Aldea de Buenavista, Chimaltenango, on 10 July 2000; whether such a protector is immune from prosecution and/or works in conjunction with the civil/state + authorities (2000) - January 2003

• Amnesty International - 2022/2023,  2022/21, 2019, 2017/18
• Amnesty International Report - Death Sentences and Executions in 2019 - Apr 2020
• Freedom House - 2023, 2022
• Human Rights Watch -  2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
• Human Rights Watch
  • Running out the Clock: How Guatemala's Courts Could Doom the Fight against Impunity - Nov. 2017
  • Freedom of Association in a Maquila in Guatemala - 1997
  • Disappeared in Guatemala: The Case of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez - March 1995
• Norwegian Refugee Council
  • The search for protection: A snapshot of Latin American legal protection frameworks - June 2023

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)

  • GTM105110.E - Guatemala: Requirements and procedures for lodging a report with the police; avenues of recourse for filing complaints against the police for corruption or misconduct; requirements and procedures to obtain a copy of the police report (2013-March 2015). Apr. 14, 2015

  • GTM43416.FE - Guatemala: Penal provisions for child abduction; existence of a Guatemalan ancillary to sections 281, 282 and 283 of the Canadian Criminal Code; consequences of child abduction in Guatemala; copy of section 88 of the Penal Code; copy of section 7 of the Law to Prevent, Punish and Eliminate Family Violence in Guatemala (2001-2005) - March 2005
  • GTM43295.E - Guatemala: Update to GTM31626.E of 11 May 1999; whether the incidence of prosecution and penalties for desertion has changed (May 1999-January 2005) - January 2005
  • GTM40950.E - Guatemala: Efforts by the state and the police to deal with crime (June 2003) - June 2003
  • GTM40476.E - Guatemala: A vigilante killing by a "civil protector" in Aldea de Buenavista, Chimaltenango, on 10 July 2000; whether such a protector is immune from prosecution and/or works in conjunction with the civil/state authorities (2000) - January 2003

• Amnesty International
  • Police Involvement in Killings in Guatemala - 2009
  • Signatures calling for the Immediate Release of Bernardo Caal- July 2021
• InSight Crime
  • The War for Guatemala's Courts- Sept. 18, 2014
• International Crisis Group
  • Saving Guatemala’s Fight Against Crime and Impunity -  October 2018
  • Police Reform in Guatemala: Obstacles and Opportunities -  July 2012
• Strategic Studies Institute - US Army War College
  • Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala: A Case Study in the Erosion of the State - May 2010

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• University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection

US Government Reports

• State Department - Northern Triangle Country Conditions Map

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• World Health Organization Page

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• CIA - Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)

  • GTM104402.E - Guatemala: Information on the political party LIDER (Libertad Democrática Renovada) during and after the elections of 2011, including treatment of its members and associated groups and individuals; information on the election results at the municipal and national levels; relationship between the LIDER Party and the Patriotic Party (Partido Patriota) during the 2011 municipal and national elections, including instances of conflict between the two parties (2011-May 2013)  May 2013

• International Crisis Group
  • Squeezed Between Crime and Impunity -  June 2010

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• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
  • Severity of internal displacement Report - Nov. 2021

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• State Department International Religious Freedom Report - 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

Foreign Government Reports

• Canada Responses to Information Requests

  • GTM104546.E - Guatemala: Treatment of members of evangelical churches, particularly members of the Pentecostal Church, by the authorities and society (2011-August 2013). Aug. 15, 2013

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • GTM101794.E - Guatemala: Treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered/transsexual individuals and availability of state protection; police attitudes towards same-sex domestic violence and state protection available to victims (2003 - September 2006) - October 2006
  • GTM42194.E - Guatemala: Update to GTM33228.E of 3 December 1999; treatment of gays, lesbians and bisexuals in Guatemala City; police attitude towards same-sex domestic violence and state protection available to its victims (1999-2003) - November 2003

Non Government Organization Reports

• Amnesty International
  • No Safe Place: Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans seeking asylum in Mexico based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. 2017

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• Homicides in Guatemala: The Challenge and Lessons of Disaggregating Gang-Related and Drug Trafficking-Related Murders. Oct. 2016

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • GTM104068.E - Violence perpetrated by criminal gangs and cases of popular justice; protection offered by the state (2008-March 2012) - May 2012
  • GTM102404.FE - Guatemala: Violence by criminal gangs and cases of popular justice; protection offered by the state (March 2005 - February 2007) - March 2007
  • GTM40604.E - Guatemala: Protection available for small businessmen who are subject to extortion by criminal gangs with links to the state and/or who are witnesses of criminal activities by these gangs (2002) - January 2003

• Crisis Group International

Mafia of the Poor: Gang Violence and Extortion in Central America - April 2017

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Non-Government Organization Reports

Amnesty International

• Guatemala: Stop Criminalizing Defenders! - July 2017

• ‘WE ARE DEFENDING THE LAND WITH OUR BLOOD’: DEFENDERS OF THE LAND, TERRITORY AND ENVIRONMENT IN HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA - Sept. 2016

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• Freedom House
  • Freedom in the World - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

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• BBC Timeline

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• Trafficking in Persons Report - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

   

Non-Government Reports

• CICIG

  • Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation Purposes in Guatemala. 2016

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Terrorism

Not Available

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Torture