Guatemala

In recent years, Guatemalan prosecutors have made progress in cases of corruption and extrajudicial killings, due in significant part to support the Attorney General’s Office has received from the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Yet efforts to promote accountability for atrocities committed during the 1960-1996 civil war have had mixed results, and impunity for violent crime and human rights abuses remains widespread. Threats and violence against human rights defenders, trade unionists, and journalists remain a major concern.