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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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.
Interview with Democracy Now (2015)
It’s clear that there is no peace without justice. There is no peace without truth.
Interview with Democracy Now (2013)
I don’t want to be controversial, but I do see that under Ronald Reagan and Bush’s administration there was a fantasy created of a third World War.
Interview with Democracy Now (2013)
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Mother TeresaAlso won UNESCO Prize for Peace Education
Noam ChomskyAlso won honorary doctorate of the Autonomous University of Madrid
José SaramagoAlso won honorary doctorate of Seville University
Mario Vargas LlosaAlso won honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Sergey LavrovAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Tromso
Yitzhak RabinAlso won Princess of Asturias Award for International CooperationAbout this person
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