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Rigoberta Menchú
K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist (born )
"Menchu" redirects here.
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 )[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 (–), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.[3]
In she received the Nobel Peace Prize, became an UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and received the Prince of Asturias Award in Menchú is also the subject of the testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú () author of the autobiographical work, Crossing Borders (), and is subject interest among other works.
Menchú founded the country's f
