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Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, 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 internationally.
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politics · K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist (born 1959) · politician · writer · autobiographer · human rights defender · resistance fighter · also Rigoberta Menchú, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Menchú
Born 9 January 1959 · Q188620
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2026· 4 entries
Mexiquense Digital: Cierra el Festival Internacional Pensamiento de Mujer con la presencia de la Premio Nobel de la Paz, Rigoberta Menchú
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Edomex Al Día: FIPEM alista su cierre con Rigoberta Menchú, Cristina Kahlo y un concierto de Polaris
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nytimes.com: Rigoberta Menchu
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2025· 1 entry
Menchú became a Mexican citizen
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2022· 1 entry
The University of Bordeaux Montaigne, located in Pessac, gave her name to its newly built library in her honor
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2020· 1 entry
Yahoo: How horror film 'La Llorona' amplifies the message of Indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum
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2015· 3 entries
The Nation: Rigoberta Menchú Vindicated
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Democracy Now: Prosecuting Guatemala’s Dirty War: Rigoberta Menchú Hails Embassy Fire Verdict, Dictator’s Trial
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Menchú met with the general director of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, in order to solidify relations between Guatemala and the organization
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2013· 3 entries
The Tico Times: For Guatemala’s Rigoberta Menchú, votes aren’t everything
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Democracy Now: Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Hails Genocide Conviction of Ex-Guatemalan Dictator Ríos Montt
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Demonstrates that 15 years later, it is possible to convict a former head of state of crimes against humanity
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2012· 1 entry
Of ordering the enforced disappearance of agronomy student Édgar Enrique Sáenz Calito during the country's long-running internal armed conflict
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2009· 3 entries
The Vancouver Sun: Bio: Rigoberta Menchu
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UNESCO: Rigoberta Menchú: I crossed the borders...
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Menchú became involved in the newly founded party Winaq
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2008· 1 entry
By former French president Jacques Chirac in order to promote world peace
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2007· 1 entry
The Tico Times: Rigoberta Menchú Announces Presidential Candidacy
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2006· 1 entry
Menchú was one of the founders of the Nobel Women's Initiative along with sister Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire
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2005· 1 entry
Menchú joined the Guatemalan federal government as goodwill ambassador for the National Peace Accords
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (2001).
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1999· 3 entries
“It’s clear that there is no peace without justice. There is no peace without truth.”
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“I think that it’s very important, and what’s really crucial here is the memory of the victims and the search for the truth, and also the commitment to substantiate the truth. So the truth is foremost, because they accused us of being liars. They tried to denigrate the memory of the victims.”
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Filed a complaint before a court in Spain because prosecutions of civil-war era crimes in Guatemala was practically impossible
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation (1998).
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1996· 1 entry
Menchú was appointed as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of her activism for the rights of Indigenous people
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Zaragoza (1995).
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Menchú married Ángel Canil, a Guatemalan, in a Mayan ceremony
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1992· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1992).
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Was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1996, and received the Prince of Asturias Award in 1998
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded UNESCO Prize for Peace Education (1990).
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1984· 1 entry
Menchú's other brother, Victor, was shot to death after he surrendered to the Guatemalan Army, was threatened by soldiers, and tried to escape
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1983· 1 entry
Was the first of its kind for Central America
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1982· 2 entries
The CIA reported several villages being burned to the ground while Guatemalan commanding officers were "expected to give no quarter to combats and non-combats alike"
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Narrated a book about her life, titled Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia (My Name is Rigoberta Menchú, and this is how my Awareness was Born), to Venezuelan author and anthropologist Elizabeth Bu
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1981· 1 entry
Menchú was exiled and escaped to Mexico where she found refuge in the home of a Catholic bishop in Chiapas
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1980· 1 entry
As a self-immolation coordinated by student and indigenous leaders of the peasant protesters occupying the embassy; investigators in 1981 reported on the massacre and the La Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico (Co
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-01-09.
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1954· 1 entry
The Cuban revolution of 1959, and the Che Guevara's commitment to create as many Vietnams as he could, the U
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