Guatemala

• Annual Reports 212
• Chronologies of Events 1
• Commentaries 1
• Comments on Concluding Observations 2
• Compilations 2
• Concluding Observations 17
• Country News 107
• Country Operations Plans 1
• Country Profiles 2
• Country Reports 122
• Fact Finding Reports 1
• Mission Reports 11
• Query Responses 527
• Regional Reports 5
• Sessional Reports 2
• Speeches/Statements 2
• States Parties Reports 20
• Thematic Reports 3

• Abduction 15
• Access to procedures 1
• Administrative law 1
• Adoption 2
• Africans 1
• Airports 1
• Animist 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 23
• Armed forces / Military 9
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 58
• Assemblies of God 6
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 12
• Baptist 7
• Catholic 10
• Child labour 23
• Child prostitution 16
• Child soldiers 7
• Children's rights 46
• Children-at-risk 24
• Christian 2
• Citizenship law 1
• Civil and political rights 6
• Civil war 9
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 3
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict resolution 6
• Conflict situation 5
• Constitutional law 5
• Convention against Torture (CAT) 3
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 3
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 3
• Corruption 13
• Coup d'état 1
• Crime prevention 2
• Crimes against humanity 15
• Criminal justice 24
• Death in custody 5
• Death penalty 16
• Death squads 8
• Demobilization / Disarmament 3
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Disabled persons 8
• Disappeared persons 40
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 32
• Domestic violence 20
• Drug trafficking 10
• Economic, social and cultural rights 28
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 12
• Elderly 1
• Elections 14
• Entry into force 1
• Episcopalian 6
• Equal opportunities 1
• Equality before the law 3
• Ethnic cleansing 2
• Evangelical 7
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 61
• Extreme poverty 7
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
• Forced labour 23
• Forced marriage 6
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 43
• Freedom of assembly and association 40
• Freedom of conscience 4
• Freedom of expression 112
• Freedom of information 42
• Freedom of movement 16
• Freedom of religion 37
• Freedom of speech 33
• Gang related violence 1
• Gender discrimination 31
• Gender mainstreaming 3
• Gender-based persecution 8
• Generalized violence 2
• Genocide 19
• Good governance 8
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Hmong 1
• Honour killings 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 25
• Human Rights Council 11
• Human rights activists 51
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 98
• Human rights courts 1
• Human rights law 1
• Human rights monitors 9
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigrants 1
• Immigration Detention 1
• Immunity 3
• Impunity 63
• Independence of judiciary 12
• Indigenous persons 48
• Internal armed conflict 8
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 14
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 2
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 4
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 3
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 3
• Jehovah's Witness 6
• Jew 6
• Jurisdiction 1
• Karen 1
• Labour law 2
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 11
• Lutheran 6
• Maternal and child health care 4
• Mayans 9
• Mental health 1
• Migrant rights 4
• Migrants 4
• Military courts 5
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 37
• Minorities 17
• Minority rights 3
• Montagnards 1
• Mormon 6
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 6
• Naturalization 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 3
• Opposition 1
• Orthodox Christian 1
• Peace agreements 20
• Peace process 3
• Peacekeeping 2
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on nationality 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 9
• Persecution of family members 3
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 4
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Police 33
• Political groups 3
• Political parties 10
• Political situation 7
• Pre-trial detention 6
• Presbyterian 6
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 17
• Property restitution 2
• Prosecution vs persecution 3
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 8
• Protestant 8
• Public health 10
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 7
• Reconciliation 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 2
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 1
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
• Refugees 16
• Reintegration 1
• Religious discrimination 17
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 12
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 6
• Right to a nationality 3
• Right to education 10
• Right to employment 11
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 3
• Right to health 5
• Right to justice 7
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 6
• Right to registration at birth 1
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 18
• SGBV 65
• Sale of children 3
• Security forces 26
• Security situation 16
• Serious non-political crime 2
• Seventh Day Adventist 5
• Sexual and reproductive rights 3
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 3
• Social group discrimination 13
• State protection 5
• Stateless persons 1
• Statelessness 1
• Terrorism 19
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 5
• Trafficking in persons 51
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 2
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 13
• Visas 9
• Voluntary repatriation 1
• War crimes 2
• Widowed persons 1
• Withdrawal of nationality 1
• Witnesses 8
• Women's rights 46
• Women-at-risk 19
• Work permits 2

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