UN experts on Monday called for an investigation into Guatemala's Attorney General Consuelo Porras for possible involvement in illegal adoptions of Indigenous children in the 1980s, during the country's civil war.

The allegation came in a statement released in Geneva on Monday, the same day that Porras, whose term as attorney general ends in May, failed in her bid to be elected to Guatemala's Constitutional Court.

The UN experts said they had received information about "at least 80 Indigenous children who were subjected to illegal international adoptions" after being in a children's home run by Porras in 1982.