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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 (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 ...
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]
Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959), activist, Nobel Peace Prize; Chico Mendes (1944–1988), trade union leader and environmentalist; Antonio Nariño (1765–1824), political and military leader; Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020), United Nations Secretary-General; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 1931), activist, Nobel Peace Prize
The film centers on the experiences of Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a Quiché indigenous woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, nine years after the film came out. [6] When The Mountains Tremble won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival , the Blue Ribbon Award at the American Film Festival , and the Grand Coral ...
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"The 20th century K'iche Maya political activist, Rigoberta Menchú, born in 1959, used the term this way in her noted memoir, which many considered controversial. She illustrates the use of ladino both as a derogatory term, when discussing an indigenous person becoming mestizo/ladino, and in terms of the general mestizo community identifying ...
Sofia Menchu. April 7, 2024 at 8:37 PM ... The dismissal was the first of his term and came after Maria Jose Iturbide acknowledged that her 28-year-old daughter had not followed protocols in the ...