21. Rigoberta Menchu Tum rigoberta Menchú tum, nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 1992 Opening Ceremony Translatedfrom Spanish In the first place, I’d like to thank the opportunity of http://www.haguepeace.org/conference/speeches/opening/speech12.html

back to speeches Opening Ceremony- Translated from Spanish In the first place we must know that there cannot be a negotiation if there is not more of an egalitarian, relationship in the world and that there is a parity regarding political strength. Political will is the starting point to reaching a negotiated peace in the world. My experience as a witness of the genocides which occurred in Guatemala, I have learned that there is not such thing as a just war. No war is just. The experience from Guatemala has also shown us that there is no truth within a war situation. One has to finish the war first, and then the truth comes out. The truth of war is painful because women are raped, children are killed, and turmoil occurs in the civil society. This truth cannot just be shared amongst the people directly involved in the conflict. This truth is a truth for all. Everyone must learn this truth. Therefore, the peace cannot be kept only in the hands of those who are undertaking conflict. The peace process must be broadened. Because the parties undertaking war both want to win the war, we cannot wait for a win

22. Latin America Trek: Rigoberta Menchu Tum Chat Transcript within Guatemala. This is the role of a nobel Prize recipient. I goesbeyond that. Back to rigoberta menchu tum Chat Transcript. http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/rigoberta/transcriptsubpg7.html

Live Webcast, February 18, 1999! Question: Now I have a question from Prospect High School: They want to know what is the conflict between you and the government of Guatemala. Well I think it's not exactly a conflict between the government and myself. I'm not subject to any political party I respect all the parties, I'm not a part of the government. I've maintained my autonomy as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, as an indigenous woman, but also as president of the Menchu foundation. I have worked to build the foundation, and for it or myself, never to be an instrument of the state. We have some very specific plans and we have our own agenda, from working with international organizations, like the UN, and also an agenda within Guatemala. This is the role of a Nobel Prize recipient. I have decided not to be a government employee and I think I will work like that in the future. Therefore, I hope that with the new Guatemalan government we’ll have better coordination, better compatibility, but I do not expect to be an employee of the new government. This is very important because, from time to time, people will ask if I will be a presidential candidate, and that, I will not do. I have my own mission for which I am very happy. Within the next month we are working on our agenda for the year 2000, for how to implement the International Year of the Culture of Peace. This International Year of the Culture of Peace must transcend borders and involve all nations, so we can together study a new possibility for creating peace and a new possibility for how to create peace in the world. So I’m involved in these projects and I can't be in Guatemala all the time because my role goes beyond that.

23. Gorbachev, Menchu Tum, Other Nobel Peace Laureates Release Johannesburg Declarat Those on the planet with the very least have the most at stake in this Summit’soutcome,” said nobel Peace Laureate rigoberta menchu tum of Guatemala. http://www.gci.ch/DigitalForum/digiforum/articles/article2002/gorbachevmenchu.ht

Gorbachev, Menchu Tum, Other Nobel Peace Laureates Release Johannesburg Declaration September 3, 2002 Green Cross International, founded in 1993 by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, is striving to foster a value shift toward a sustainable future by working in co-operation with individuals, industry, and governments. The Green Cross has launched several initiatives at the Summit including, the $50 Billion Solar Venture Fund, World Water Wisdom Initiative, Water for Peace, and others. There are 26 national organisations. Read the text of the Declaration: english ( html word pdf ) french ( html word Contacts: Joe Costello joec@cts.com 083 751 0501 Matt Petersen mpetersen@globalgreen.org 083 751 0497 French and Italian Press- Elisa Baldet elisa_baldet@hotmail.com 083 750 7893

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25. Rigoberta Menchu: From Peace Prize To Controversy The nobel Peace Prize committee, however, assured her that they would not award moneyto set up a foundation, the rigoberta menchu tum Foundation, dedicated to http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/1999/08/24/p14s3.htm

Monitor Site Map @csmonitor.com About Us/Help Advertising Christian Science Article Archive AP's The WIRE Crossword puzzle Forums (join in!) Home International News Links Library News In Brief Subscriptions US News Weekly News Quiz TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1999 Headlines e-mail this story to a friend LEARNING THE NOTEBOOK Rigoberta Menchu: From peace prize to controversy Eric Unmacht Rigoberta Menchu, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, has long championed basic rights for indigenous peoples in Guatemala and around the world. She has fought to preserve the Mayan culture, of which she is an integral part. Born in 1959 in a northwestern village of Guatemala, Ms. Menchu is a member of the Quiche, a subgroup of the Mayan people who constitute 60 to 80 percent of the country's population. Like many families in the mountainous region who subsisted on beans and corn grown on small plots, the Menchus migrated seasonally to the coast to pick coffee beans or cotton on large plantations. LAUREATE FOR PEACE: Rigoberta Menchu, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, still champions indigenous rights. GREGG NEWTON/REUTERS But in the 1970s her family was swept up in the long struggle between wealthy landowners, indigenous peoples, and US-supported government forces in Guatemala that, according to human rights groups, eventually took the lives of 200,000 people in a country of 11 million. Victims of the war included Menchu's brother, mother, and father, who was killed during a 1980 occupation by activists of the Spanish Embassy.

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28. Rigoberta Menchu Tum Coming To UCLA rigoberta menchu tum Coming To UCLA. Come see rigoberta menchu tum,recipient of the 1992 nobel Peace prize. Tuesday, November 21 http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/chavez/menchu.htm

Rigoberta Menchu Tum Coming To UCLA Come see Rigoberta Menchu Tum, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace prize. Tuesday, November 21 12:00 - 1:30 pm Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA (doors open at 11:30) Sponsored by: UCLA Latin American Center, Central American Student Network, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA North American Integration and Development Center, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, UCLA office of Residential Life, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Lewis Center, UCLA César E. Chávez Center for Chicana/o Studies, UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History. For more info, please call (310)825-4571 or e-mail aorozco@ucla.edu for additional information on Rigoberta Menchu Tum, please visit: http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/menchu.html

29. Rigoberta Menchu Tum by Amanda Ingram. My topic is rigoberta menchu tum. rigoberta tum is a wonderfuland extremely successful. She won the nobel Peace Prize at a very young age. http://staff.esuhsd.org/~balochie/studentprojects/rigomenchu/

Rigoberta Menchu Tum by Amanda Ingram My topic is Rigoberta Menchu Tum. For information on this magnificent young woman, click below on Background. Rigoberta Tum is a wonderful and extremely successful. She won the Nobel Peace Prize at a very young age. She is a victim of the Guatemalan Civil War , which has raged on for more than thirty years. Rigoberta has turned her poverty and violence-filled life into beauty, truth, and a search for peace for her people. Background Links Credits Return to All Projects Home

30. Rigoberta's Life The nobel Peace Prize strongly acknowledges rigoberta tum menchu.She was acknowledged for representing the people of Guatemala. http://staff.esuhsd.org/~balochie/studentprojects/rigomenchu/background.html

Background Rigoberta Tum was born in 1959 in the village of Chimel, Guatemala and is still "going strong". This village is a type of community continuing the millennium-old Maya culture. The Mayas have been around for thousands of years. As a child, Menchu worked in fields and later in the city as a domestic employee. She lived in the midst of injustice, misery, and discrimination, all of which are the every day life of the people of Guatemala. Different members of her family were tortured and killed by the armed forces. While under persecution, Menchu was exiled to Mexico in 1980. Rigoberta is a very intelligent self-educated woman. She has shown herself how to be a natural leader. Menchu became an active worker in labor and human-rights groups and also in the defense and promotion of the rights and values of Indigenous Peoples. In 1983 she wrote a book. Rigoberta is an activist for peace. She is known all around the world for defending world rights. Menchu also stood up for her beliefs of Guatemalans being treated better. Rigoberta received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. She was the youngest person ever to receive this award. She dedicated the Nobel Peace Prize to her loving and caring father. The Nobel Peace Prize strongly acknowledges Rigoberta Tum Menchu. She was acknowledged for representing the people of Guatemala. These citizens are the victims of repression, racial discrimination, and poverty.

31. LETTER FROM NOBEL LAUREATE RIGOBERTA MENCHU TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH ix.netcom.com LETTER FROM nobel LAUREATE rigoberta menchu TO PRESIDENT hope on athread, I remain sincerely, rigoberta Mencho tum nobel Peace Laureate http://www.peacelink.it/webgate/pcknews/msg01231.html

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32. Rigoberta Menchu Tum Guatemalan nobel Peace Prize Recipient rigoberta Menchú tum (1959) rigoberta Menchú tum grew up in almost unimaginable poverty. http://writetools.com/women/stories/menchu_rigoberta.html

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CARTA DE LA PREMIO NOBEL RIGOBERTA MENCHU AL PRESIDENTE GEORGE W. BUSH >        D. George W. Bush >        Washington, D.C. - E.U.A. > Deseo, en primer lugar, reiterar a Ud. la solidaridad y condolencia > terrorismo. > He invocado la conciencia de los pueblos del mundo, a los medios > de los organismos internacionales, para que la cordura ilumine nuestros > actos. > de temor por lo que puede desprenderse de sus palabras. > orgullo, marchando a una guerra de la que pretende hacernos parte > a todos los pueblos del mundo. > A nombre del progreso, el pluralismo, la tolerancia y la libertad, > desea Ud. defender para su pueblo, y a quienes nunca tuvimos > Quienes somos expresiones orgullosas de otras civilizaciones; > llevamos en el alma el dolor del genocidio perpetrado en contra > de nuestros pueblos; quienes, en fin, estamos hartos de poner > los muertos en guerras ajenas, no podemos compartir la > desea empujarnos cuando afirma que "Todas las naciones en > que: >              Dignidad de los Pueblos y las Culturas > escuchamos fue una amenaza inaceptable.

34. An Interview With Rigoberta Menchu rigoberta menchu tum, a Quiche Maya, won the nobel Peace Prize in 1992 in recognitionof her work on behalf of indigenous peoples and poor ladinos in Guatemala http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/151.html

Documents menu Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:31:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:32:33 GMT Organization: PACH Subject: NACLA: Rigoberta Menchu Interview: May/June 1996 /** nacla.report: 255.0 **/ ** Topic: Update: Rigoberta Menchu Interview: May/June 1996 ** ** Written 11:51 AM Jun 19, 1996 by nacla in cdp:nacla.report ** Reprinted from the May/June 1996 issue of NACLA Report on the Americas. For subscription information, E-Mail to nacla-info@igc.apc.org An Interview with Rigoberta Menchu By NACLA editors, May/June 1996 Rigoberta Menchu Tum, a Quiche Maya, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 in recognition of her work on behalf of indigenous peoples and poor ladinos in Guatemala. With the prize money, she established a foundation in her name to continue the same work. In early 1994, she returned to Guatemala after 13 years in exile in Mexico. In anticipation of the December, 1995 national elections, her foundation launched a National Campaign for Civic Participation, a non-partisan effort to encourage women and indigenous people to vote. Her decision not to take sides in the election angered some in the Guatemalan left, with whom she had collaborated in the 1980s. Menchu was interviewed in February in the foundation's New York offices by the NACLA editors. What motivated you to return to Guatemala in 1994?

35. Untitled We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance andracism. . In 1992, rigoberta menchu tum was awarded the nobel Peace Prize. http://www.officeoftheamericas.org/docs/2000/0004_menchu_at_oxy.htm

From: Lisa Sousa [lsousa@oxy.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:54 AM To: ooa@igc.org Subject: NEW MENCHU MSG-PLS USE THIS PLEASE FORWARD OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE PRESENTS "HUMAN RIGHTS AND MINORITY RIGHTS IN GUATEMALA AND THE WORLD" a talk by NOBEL LAUREATE, RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM APRIL 26, 2:30-4:00 MOSHER 1 event is free and open to the public. For more information about this event, contact Lisa Sousa at (323) 259-2753 or lsousa@oxy.edu. web site: www.oxy.edu or call (323) 259-2500. Rigoberta Menchu Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Guatemalan activist for the rights of indigenous peoples around the world, will speak at Occidental College on Wednesday, April 26, from 2:30-4:00, in Mosher I. Mench Tum, commenting on need for respect for indigenous peoples around the world, said, "We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism." In 1992, Rigoberta Menchu Tum was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She used the $1.2 million cash prize to set up a foundation, Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum, an organization that advocates for human rights for indigenous people. The United Nations declared 1993 the International Year for Indigenous Populations, and Menchu Tum served as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Menchu Tum actively participated in the United Peasant Committee and was wanted by the Guatemalan government. After her mother's death, she fled to Mexico where she dictated an autobiography

36. Nobel Laureate Creates Hope From Anguish - November 4, 1998 rigoberta menchu tum nobel laureate. After seeing her family tortured and murdered,rigoberta menchu tum has turned her life of agony into a quest for peace. http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/92/52/01_6_m.html

Nobel laureate creates hope from anguish By Genevieve D. Cruise Arizona Daily Wildcat November 4, 1998 Send comments to: letters@wildcat.arizona.edu Wildcat File Photo Arizona Daily Wildcat Rigoberta Menchu Tum Nobel laureate After seeing her family tortured and murdered, Rigoberta Menchu Tum has turned her life of agony into a quest for peace. Menchu - now a Nobel Peace-Prize winner, activist, author and mother - spoke yesterday before more than 1,000 UA students, faculty and community members crammed into the University of Arizona's 600-seat Gallagher Theatre. Clothed colorfully in traditional Mayan attire, Menchu spoke about issues central but not limited to Latin America, such as conflicts between American Indians and the ruling class. "We have to break the silence - have allies and dialogues," she said. Menchu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her work in Guatemala as a political activist for human rights and equality for women and indigenous people. Shortly after winning the peace prize, Menchu set up the Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation, with offices in Guatemala City, New York City and Mexico City.

37. Re: [actualidad] Carta Rigoberta Menchu Tum Al Presidente George W. Bush Translate this page Yoe F. Santos Centro Cultural de Intercambio Audio-Visual, Inc Republica DominicanaWest Indies - Carta de rigoberta menchu tum -Premio nobel de la Paz http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/elan/2001/msg00512.html

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38. GeoBee In 1992 rigoberta tum menchu was awarded the nobel Peace prize, the money shegained, went to the establishment of the rigoberta tum menchu foundation. http://www.arps.org/ww/Peacemakers/RigobertaMenchu.htm

Back to the Wildwood Home Page Back to 4th Grade Peacemaker Projects Rigoberta Tum Menchu By Camille, 4th Grade Childhood Rigoberta Tum Menchu was born on January 9th 1959, into the peasant family of Vicente and Juana Tum Menchu. They lived in Chimel Guatemala at the time. She was the sixth of ten children, and had a hard life. Her family farmed cotton and coffee and worked fifteen hour shifts each day. When Rigoberta was seven years old her family went into terrible debt, that same year the Menchu children became severely ill and were sick for many weeks with very little treatment. After their illness their lives were still hard. They had little money and bills to pay. As you can see, these were difficult years for the Menchu family. Adult Life Turning Point The death of her parents was an emotional time for Rigoberta, but it didn’t stop her from working for Guatemalan human rights. She fought long and hard for her people, never giving up and always keeping violence the farthest choice and, convincing others who chose that path to change, and to try to help Guatemala, not to destroy it. The next year (1981), the Guatemala Government was violently stopping rebel groups such as the C.U.C (Campesino Unity Committee) in which Rigoberta was working in. She was forced into hiding. It became so dangerous that she had to flee to Mexico for safety. She stayed there for a year while writing her life story, I Rigoberta Menchu.

39. GeoBee Her parents, Vincent and Juana tum menchu and their children rigoberta menchu wasvery tempted to make peace for In 1992 rigoberta was awarded the nobel Peace http://www.arps.org/ww/Peacemakers/RigobertaMenchu2.htm

Back to the Wildwood Home Page Back to 4th Grade Peacemaker Projects Rigoberta Menchu By Sadie, 4 th Grade Childhood Rigoberta Tum Menchu, the 6 th child of 10 siblings, was born on January 9 th , 1959 in Chimel, Guatemala. Her parents, Vincent and Juana Tum Menchu and their children raised cotton and coffee. In 1996 the Menchu family was deeply in debt. In the same year the Menchu family became ill. They couldn’t pay money for medical problems because they owed money that they didn’t have. It took many weeks before they recovered. Although her childhood was hard she grew up to be an amazing person. Adult Life Right before her mother’s death Rigoberta was in a group called the C. U. C. This group helped Indian peasants who were slaves by shutting down the farm where they worked because they were only getting paid 75 centavos a day which is less than a U.S. dollar. In 1981 and 1982 Rigoberta went into hiding and then it wasn’t safe so she had to flee to Mexico. She had to go into hiding because anybody who disagreed with the Guatemalan government would be tortured, killed or thrown out of their houses. Rigoberta came back to Guatemala but stayed quite a time in Mexico. This part of her life was divided between Mexico and Guatemala. Turning Point Rigoberta Menchu was very tempted to make peace for many reasons. Here are some of the reasons. Her mom and brother were kidnapped, tortured and killed. Some Indian peasants were getting paid less than some white people who were working less. There were also some racial murders going on. After these terible things Rigoberta decided to devote her life to peace making.

40. Rigoberta Menchú Tum Translate this page elle reçoit le Prix nobel de la paix. C'est en 1992 et le monde s’apprête àfêter les 500 ans de la découverte de l’Amérique. rigoberta appartient à http://www.nobel-paix.ch/bio/menchu.htm

Prix Nobel en 1992 Droits de l'homme ladinos (métis) qui comme les Indiens subissent la même oppression. En janvier 1981, est créé le "Comité d’Unité paysanne" qui décide d’adhérer au "Front populaire du 31 janvier". Cette date commémore le massacre d’un groupe d’Indiens venus du Quiché qui, dans le but de faire connaître au monde le sort des Indiens de ce pays, avait occupé l’ambassade d’Espagne à Guatemala-Ciudad. A la tête de ce groupe se trouvait Vicente Menchú, père de Rigoberta.

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