The Nobel Peace Prize 1992
Awarded on: 1992-10-16
"for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Born: 1959-01-09 in Aldea Chimel, Guatemala
Gender: female
Field: K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist (born 1959)
Biography
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.