Menchu rigoberta biography
Menchu rigoberta biography facts.
Rigoberta Menchú
K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist (born 1959)
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Menchu rigoberta biography
For other uses, see Menchu (disambiguation).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Menchú and the second or maternal family name is Tum.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish:[riɣoˈβeɾtamenˈtʃu]; 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 internationally.[3]
In 1992 she received the Nobel Peace Prize, became an UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and received the Prince of Asturias Award in 1998.
Menchú is also the subject of the testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983) author of the autobiographical work, Crossing Borders (1998), and is subject interest among other wo