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Guatemala faces a human rights court over violent evictions of Indigenous communities

MONGABAY · Maxwell Radwin ·

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Years after Indigenous communities in Guatemala were forcibly evicted from their ancestral land, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is asking a court to hold the government responsible and provide reparations. On Oct. 28, the IACHR announced it had referred a case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which rules on human rights violations […]

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