Rigoberta Menchu, winner of 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, dismisses questions about inaccuracies in her 1983 book raised by anthropologist David Stoll; says book is faithful representation of trauma ...

The only path to peace is through dialogue, prevention, political solutions to conflicts, and bilateral relations between our nations. Rigoberta Menchú 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. “If we speak of ...

Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú connected her people’s suffering directly to that of the Israelites, asserting, “We, too, have been enslaved and forced from our land.” ...

Mahrang’s life experiences share remarkable similarities with those of Rigoberta Menchú Tum, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her efforts to protect the rights of native Mayan ...

Indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchu says she will run for president in Guatemala's elections this September. Ms Menchu will stand for a coalition of the indigenous party Winaq, which she founded ...

BOOK EXCERPT In his new book, academic Pramod K Nayar examines the ways literature is the ‘eyewitness’ of history An excerpt from ‘Life/Writing, Selected Essays: 2006-2021’, Pramod K Nayar.

— Rigoberta Menchú Tum - “We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them. … I ask you to be citizens.

The Olympic Laurel recipient for 2024 was selected by a distinguished judging panel representing all five continents: Mrs Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Chair of the IOC Advisory Committee for Human Rights ...

News Rights + Justice Politics BC Politics Stepping into the Big, Weird ‘Anti-woke’ Tent To help us understand right-wing rhetoric, Francis Dupuis-Déri walks us through the ...

The events forced Menchú Tum, then 22, into exile to Mexico in 1981, where she began a campaign advocating for Indigenous people’s rights. A year later, she started meeting her mentors in San ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Rigoberta Menchu Tum is a President for the Indigenous Initiatives for Peace with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Speech.

The theme for this year’s Carnaval was “Honor Indigenous Roots,” and Rigoberta Menchú, a 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Guatemala who fought for the rights of Indigenous people in her ...