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Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born 9 January 1959) [1] is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, [2] and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. . Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights international
Rigoberta Menchú: 1959 Guatemala: indigenous rights leader, co-founder of Nobel Women's Initiative: Eulalie Nibizi: 1960 Burundi: Human rights activist, trade unionist Steven Goldstein: 1962 United States: gay rights advocate, political activist Chee Soon Juan: 1962 Singapore: politician, former political prisoner, democracy and human rights ...
The party was founded in 2007, in the run-up to that year's 9 September general election.Its presidential candidate was Rigoberta Menchú, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning indigenous activist, running on a ticket with businessman Luis Fernando Montenegro as her vice-presidential hopeful.
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In 1996, Rigoberta Menchu became a UN Ambassador for the world's Indigenous peoples [23] and helped promote the first International Decade of the World's Indigenous People. [25] Since then, she has run for President of Guatemala in both 2007 and 2011 as a member of the left-leaning Winaq party but lost both elections by a large majority. [24]
Agents now feel they can take a “breather” and get back to “secure our nation’s borders,” said Marrero-Rubio. “It’s a relief for our agents, they don’t feel overwhelmed,” he added.
Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959) Guatemala "for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples." [92] 1993 Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South Africa "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South ...