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March 09, 2010 Call to declare the Right to Food a national priority for Guatemala

Geneva/Guatemala: Several international organisations and networks that presented a report on the Right to Food call attention at national and international levels to the situation of hunger and malnutrition existing in Guatemala. They demand that the Right to Food be declared a national priority. Moreover, they urge to cease violence and threats against social, community, indigenous, peasant and trade union leaders, and to effectively protect human rights defenders.

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Asociacion Q'ukumatz

Country: 
Guatemala
Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work: 
Women & ESCR
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Case of the Street Children ”(Villagrán-Morales et al.) v. Guatemala

A petition was filed with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) against the State of Guatemala alleging the kidnapping, torture and death of four minors and the murder of a fifth one in 1990, in the city of Guatemala, by members of the security forces, and the State's failure to provide adequate judicial protection to the victims' families.

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María Eugenia Morales de Sierra. Case Nº 11.625, Report on the Merits Nº 4/01. [ENG]

María Eugenia Morales de Sierra and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) filed a report against the State of Guatemala before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights ( IACHR). They claimed that the provisions in the Civil Code of Guatemala in respect of the role of each partner within marriage involved gender discrimination, violating the right to protection of the family, the right to equal protection, and the right to respect for honor and dignity under the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR).

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