Unjust laws
Name(s):
Legislative injustice
Laws in violation of human decency
Unjust legislation
Incidence
Since the time of the Conquest, alien laws and regulations had been imposed on the Guatemalan people - a legal system that protected the conquerors and destroyed the centuries-old organizational structures of the indigenous population. For nearly five centuries the system for the administration of justice has served those who held economic and political power.
Claim
Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
Aggravates
Aggravated by
Strategy(ies)
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral problems