Partnering with CERJ, the Kennedy Human Rights Center represented four forcibly disappeared indigenous human rights defenders in Guatemala. After the November 2024 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the government responsible, the President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, offered public apologies during a formal ceremony in December 2025. El Paìs reports that the court ordered Guatemala to ratify several reparations measures in favor of the victims, including a thorough investigation of the disappearances and the implementation of several measures to prevent recurrence.
Our President, Kerry Kennedy, spoke about the importance of the decision, “This public acknowledgment of responsibility is not, therefore, a mere symbolic act. It is the formal recognition by the State, before its people and before the world, of the serious human rights violations committed against these communities.”
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