Guatemala

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Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - Mission to Guatemala (A/HRC/4/41/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, Mr. Philip Alston - Mission to Guatemala (A/HRC/4/20/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler - Mission to Guatemala (E/CN.4/2006/44/Add.1)

Report of Doudou Diène, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance - Mission to Guatemala (E/CN.4/2005/18/Add.2)

Report of Yakin Ertürk, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences - Mission to Guatemala (E/CN.4/2005/72/Add.3)

Report of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people. (1-11/09/2002) (E/CN.4/2003/90/Add.2)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her office in Guatemala (A/HRC/7/38/Add.1)

Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and follow up to the World Conference for Human Rights - Mission to Guatemala (A/HRC/4/49/Add.1)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her Office in Guatemala (E/CN.4/2006/10/Add.1)

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Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Rights of the Child
OPSC - Concluding Observations (2007)
OPAC - Concluding Observations (2007)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2006)

Committee Against Torture
Concluding Observations (2006)

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding Observations (2006)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding Observations (2003)

Human Rights Committee
Concluding Observations (2001)

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Guatemala enjoys a rising economy that would guarantee the well-being of all its citizens if its wealth were distributed equally. Instead, Guatemala has one of the most unequal distributions of wealth in the world. The newly elected Government,which will take office in January 2008, faces a myriad of challenges, but none will be more critical than addressing violent and organized crime,which is said to be increasingly infiltrating the political system itself. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Guatemala reports one of the highest intentional homicide rates among all countries for which reliable data are available. The UNDP reckons that violence costs Guatemala the equivalent of 7.3 percent of its GDP each year.
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