61. Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Wikipedia rigoberta menchu tum. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. rigoberta Menchú tumborn in Chimel, Guatemala in 1959, recipient of the 1992 nobel Peace Prize http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoberta_Menchu_Tum

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62. Nobel Winner Inspires Students To Make A Difference rigoberta menchu tum, the youngest and first indigenous woman to receive the NobelPeace Prize, spoke to an attentive audience of CSUB students, staff and http://www.csubak.edu/Runner/archive/2000/Nov1/news4.html

Nobel winner inspires students to make a difference By DANA SCHILLY News and Copy Editor Rigoberta Menchu Tum, the youngest and first indigenous woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, spoke to an attentive audience of CSUB students, staff and faculty in the Multi-purpose room of the Student Union Thursday morning. The diminutive champion of human rights and author of several books was welcomed on campus with a standing ovation. Menchu Tum is in exile from her native Guatemala where the indigenous Mayan population has suffered centuries of persecution. She told the audience how her brother, mother and father were tortured and murdered by the military Guatemalan government. Menchu Tum encouraged students to have a broad view of the world and of human life. She told them to appreciate the advantages of education and prosperity and to use those gifts to move forward in the world. Menchu Tum spoke about her involvement in the International Decade for Peace which is set to begin next year. ASi President Ricardo Salinas was on hand to help set up and to assist with book sales.

63. Latin American Culture And Civilization rigoberta menchu tum. The links below lead to a variety of sites containinginfo on rigoberta menchu tum, the 1992 nobel Peace Prize winner. http://wso.williams.edu:8000/~tgeiger/latam.html

Latin American Culture and Civilization Internet Resources This page contains: Newsgroups soc.culture.* groups other Newsgroups pages dealing with Rigoberta Menchu Tum History Resources Newsgroups soc.culture.* groups These newsgroups deal with the cultural life in a given region or culture. Many, though not all, of the postings are in Spanish (or Portugese in the case of soc.culture.brazil). Of the newsgroups listed below, the busiest are soc.culture.latin-america and soc.culture.mexican. soc.culture.latin-america soc.culture.argentina soc.culture.brazil soc.culture.bolivia ... soc.culture.caribbean - includes discussions of spanish-speaking islands soc.culture.chile soc.culture.colombia soc.culture.costa-rica soc.culture.cuba ... soc.culture.mexican - more of a focus on the emigre community than soc.culture.mexico soc.culture.me xico soc.culture.nicaragua soc.culture.peru soc.culture.puerto-rico ... return to top Other Newsgroups The groups below deal with current conditions and/or aspects of Latin American culture. All of the groups below primarily contain articles in English. alt.mexico

64. UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Mrs. rigoberta menchu tum President, rigoberta menchu tum Foundation nobel PeaceLaureate, 1992 Mrs. rigoberta menchu tum is a Guatemalan activist who works to http://www.undp.org/equatorinitiative/secondary/jury_bios.htm

Jury EQUATOR PRIZE 2002 JURY H. E. Dr. Oscar Arias Sánchez Founder of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress President of Costa Rica, 1986-1990 Nobel Peace Laureate, 1987 Dr. Oscar Arias is Founder of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress and a spokesperson for the causes of worldwide peace and disarmament. Educated at the University of Costa Rica and the University of Essex, England, he earned a seat in the Costa Rican congress in 1978, became Secretary-General of the National Liberation Party in 1981, and was elected President of Costa Rica for the term 1986-1990. Assuming office at a time of regional discord, Dr. Arias worked throughout his Presidency to promote peace in Central America. In 1987, Dr. Arias developed the Arias Peace Plan to halt regional conflict. This culminated in the signing of the Esquipulas II Accords which helped establish a firm and lasting peace in Central America. In 1987 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Using the monetary award from the Nobel Prize, he established the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress - a foundation that promotes gender equality, the strengthening of civil society in Central America, and demilitarization and conflict resolution throughout the world.

65. UNDP Press Releases in Ecotechnology Chairman of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation Mrs. rigobertamenchu tum President, rigoberta menchu tum Foundation nobel Peace Laureate. http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease/releases/2002/july/23jul02.html

Press releases: Press Releases The Equator Initiative announces 27 finalists for cash prizes worth $180,000 New York, 23 July 2002: The Equator Initiative has selected 27 extraordinary community projects as finalists for the Equator Prize 2002 , which will be awarded on 30 August 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. The finalists are drawn from a pool of 420 nominations from 77 countries. An eminent Jury of respected international leaders, including Noble Peace Prize laureates Rigoberta Menchu Tum and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, will select six winners, who will be presented with a cash prize of US$30,000, each. "The challenge for global biodiversity conservation is how to move from international commitment to local action," says Professor Calestous Juma of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and an Equator Prize Jury member. "The projects shortlisted for the Equator Prize 2002 are extremely important because they demonstrate the incredible creativity of community-level solutions to the challenges of biodiversity loss and poverty."

66. Western Sahara And ET At Nobel Ceremonies appeal was signed by Jose Ramos Horta (1996, East Timor) , rigoberta menchu tum(1992, Guatemala to Kofi Annan saying that the award of the nobel Peace Prize http://www.etan.org/et2001c/december/16-22/16westrn.htm

Home Background ETAN/US News ... Site Index Subject: Western Sahara and ET at Nobel Ceremonies December 16, 2001 Sunday Western Sahara; Sahara Weekly News Update 10-11.12.01: Nobel Prize In an interview in the Norwegian daily Klassekampen, the Coordinator of the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara, Mr. Ronny Hansen warned that if the UN abandons the referendum it could lead to renewed war in Western Sahara and would be in breach of international legality. "Kofi Annan is playing a risky game and could spark a wider, regional conflict", he said. "Kofi Annan grew up in the the first African country to be decolonised. He is now on the verge of impeding the decolonisation of the last colony on the African continent. [...] The original Settlement Plan is still in force and it is depressing that Mr. Annan and the UN haven't shown enough will and steadfastness to honour their own promises and commitments". Rigoberta Menchu (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1992, Guatemala) and Jose Ramos-Horta (Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1996 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, East Timor) participated in a panel together with Pedro Pinto Leite, of The International Association of Jurists for Western Sahara, at a joint press conference under the heading "The UN's credibility at stake in Western Sahara". (11.12.01) The speakers expressed concern for the UN's unfulfilled promise to decolonise Western Sahara. Rigoberta Menchu said "it's time to break the wall of silence and complicity surrounding Western Sahara and put and end to the illegal and brutal Moroccan occupation." Ramos-Horta highlighted his admiration for the courage, steadfastness and dedication shown by the Saharawi people in their struggle for a free homeland.

67. Rigoberta Menchu Tum rigoberta menchu tum. 1992 nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Arvada Center for the Artsand Humanities. Friday, Feb 28, 2003 700 830pm. Admission is $15 per person. http://gw.clark.st:770/rigobertamenchutum.htm

Rigoberta Menchu Tum 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities Friday, Feb 28, 2003 7:00 - 8:30pm Ad mission is $15 per person This will be a fundraiser for Peace Jam , a youth education organization. Admission charge is TAX DEDUCTIBLE www.peacejam.org Call 303-455-2099 for tickets

68. Tum, Rigoberta Menchú tum, rigoberta Menchú (1959). Over the years, rigoberta menchu has become widelyknown as a leading advocate of Indian rights and ethno From Les Prix nobel 1992 http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/T/Tum/Tum.htm

Tum, Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchu was born on January 9, 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture. In her early years she helped with the family farm work, either in the northern highlands where her family lived, or on the Pacific coast, where both adults and children went to pick coffee on the big plantations. Rigoberta Menchu soon became involved in social reform activities through the Catholic Church, and became prominent in the women's rights movement when still only a teenager. Such reform work aroused considerable opposition in influential circles, especially after a guerilla organization established itself in the area. The Menchu family was accused of taking part in guerrilla activities and Rigoberta's father, Vicente, was imprisoned and tortured for allegedly having participated in the execution of a local plantation owner. After his release, he joined the recently founded Committee of the Peasant Union (CUC). In 1979, Rigoberta, too, joined the CUC. That year her brother was arrested, tortured and killed by the army. The following year, her father was killed when security forces in the capital stormed the Spanish Embassy where he and some other peasants were staying. Shortly afterwards, her mother also died after having been arrested, tortured and raped. Rigoberta became increasingly active in the CUC, and taught herself Spanish as well as other Mayan languages than her native Quiche. In 1980, she figured prominently in a strike the CUC organized for better conditions for farm workers on the Pacific coast, and on May 1, 1981, she was active in large demonstrations in the capital. She joined the radical 31st of January Popular Front, in which her contribution chiefly consisted of educating the Indian peasant population in resistance to massive military oppression.

69. UNESCO - Rigoberta Menchu Túm rigoberta menchu Túm. nobel Peace Price Laureate, rigoberta Menchú tum hasdedicated her life to fighting for the rights of indigenous populations. http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=8319&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.h

Français English Goodwill Ambassadors Artists for Peace ... Newsletter Rigoberta Menchu Túm Nobel Peace Price Laureate, Rigoberta Menchú Tum has dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of indigenous populations. She has been a relentless campaigner for the respect of human rights and has become the face and voice of the indigenous people in her native Guatemala. Her work has instilled a sense of pride in indigenous people the world over and has drawn the world's attention to the unheard suffering of her people. Rigoberta Menchú works closely with the Organization to promote the International Year of Culture of Peace and the preservation of indigenous culture. Recognised and highly respected moral authority, Rigoberta Menchú Tum advocates these goals in her encounters with world political leaders, in international fora and through the work of her Foundation. Biography Participation in UNESCO Activities Photo Gallery Abreu, José Antonio ... Werthein, Julio ID: guest (Read) Contact

70. New Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2002. rigoberta menchu tum, 1992 NOBELPEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT, PPEARED AT NSU’S NORTH MIAMI BEACH CAMPUS. http://www.nova.edu/cwis/ia/pubaffairs/news/archive/april-june2002/nobel-prize-w

For more information contact Jennifer Meriam, Director (954) 262-5355 Mike Laderman, Associate Director, (954) 262-5354 Mara Kiffin, Coordinator, (954) 262-5350 Teresa Axelrod, Writer, (954) 262-5309 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2002 RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, 1992 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE RECIPIENT, PPEARED AT NSU’S NORTH MIAMI BEACH CAMPUS FORT LAUDERDALE, FL— Rigoberta Menchu Tum, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, spoke today [Friday, April 26] faculty, staff, and invited guests at Nova Southeastern University’s Fischler Graduate School of Education and Human Services’ North Miami Beach campus. Menchu, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous people, appeared before a crowd of 100 at a reception at NSU’s North Miami Beach campus Technology Auditorium, followed by a short question-and-answer session. As part of a nationwide tour with PeaceJam ( www.peacejam.org

71. VoS - Voice Of The Shuttle nobel Prize Internet Archive rigoberta menchu tum. VoS is woven by Alan Liu anda development team in the U.California, Santa Barbara, English Department. http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse-netscape.asp?id=2195

72. Rigoberta Menchu by rigoberta menchu tum nobel Peace Prize, Goodwill Ambassador for the Cultureof Peace To Mr. George W. Bush President of the United States of America http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~ser00003/menchu.html

Rigoberta Menchu's Open Letter to G. W. Bush by Rigoberta Menchu Tum Nobel Peace Prize, Goodwill Ambassador for the Culture of Peace To Mr. George W. Bush President of the United States of America Washington DC, USA. Your Excellency, Mr. President: In the first place, I want to reiterate to you the solidarity and condolences I expressed to all your people on Tues. Sept. 11 when I became aware of the painful occurrences that had taken place in your country, as well as to share my indignation and condemnation of the threats these acts of terrorism constitute. In recent days I have been following the evolution of events, using my best efforts so that the response to them would be reflection, not obsession; prudence, not rage; and the pursuit of justice, not revenge. I invoked the consciousness of the world's peoples, the communications media, the eminent personalities with whom I share an ethical commitment to peace, the heads of state and leaders of international bodies, in order that prudence illuminate our acts. Nevertheless, Mr. President, upon listening to the message you gave to the Congress of your country, I have been unable to overcome a sensation of fear for what may come of your words. You call upon your people to prepare for "a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen" and for your soldiers to save their honour by marching to a war in which you intend to involve all of us, the peoples of the world.

73. Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Biography Introduction by rigoberta Menchú tum. Stoll’s critical examination of rigoberta’sautobiography, based on Stoll approves of her nobel prize and has no http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html

was born on January 9, 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture. In her early years she helped with the family farm work, either in the northern highlands where her family lived, or on the Pacific coast, where both adults and children went to pick coffee on the big plantations. When the Mountains Tremble From Les Prix Nobel Selected Bibliography By Rigoberta Menchú Tum Crossing Borders: An Autobiography . New York: Verso, 1998. (First published in Italian, October 1997, and in Spanish, April 1998.) I, Rigoberta Menchú. An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Edited and introduced by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. New York and London: Verso, 1984. (Her life story, based on a week of recorded interviews with the editor, a Latin American anthropologist, who revised and arranged the transcripts. The original Spanish title in 1983 was “My Name is Rigoberta Menchú and This is How My Consciousness Was Raised.” Translated into more than twelve languages and received several international awards. The autobiography became a most influential image internationally of the atrocities committed by the Guatemalan army in peasant villages during the civil war. In 1999 a controversy arose over its credibility, see Stoll below.

74. Nobel Peace Laureates Conference | 1998 Using the monetary award from the nobel Peace Prize, in January 1993,she founded the rigoberta Menchú tum Foundation. Its goals http://www.virginia.edu/nobel/laureates/bios/tum_bio.html

1992 Nobel Peace Laureate Nobel website Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation Transcript of Rigoberta Menchu-Tum's Conference Speech Discussion ... Questions and Answers In her 1982 "as-told-to" autobiography, , she said, "I started thinking about my childhood, and I came to the conclusion that I hadn’t had a childhood at all. I was never a child. I hadn’t been to school, I hadn’t had enough food to grow properly, I had nothing. I asked myself: ‘How is this possible?’" It was possible in part because of the political turmoil that had plagued Guatemala since the country gained its independence in 1821. Except for one 10-year stretch of representative government, which began in 1945, the nation had endured years of rig ht-wing dictatorships, insurgencies, coups, and periods of military rule. For her efforts on behalf of indigenous people worldwide, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. At age 33, she was the youngest person ever to receive this honor. "By maintaining a disarming humanity in a brutal world, Rigoberta Menchú Tum appeals to the best in all of us, wherever we live and whatever our background," said Francis Sejersted, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in conferr ing the honor. "She stands as a uniquely potent symbol of a just struggle. "There is a most urgent need to define the rights of aboriginal peoples and to respect those rights in a manner which makes it possible to live in peace and mutual understanding," he added. "To succeed in this, we need people like Rigobe rta Menchú Tum."

75. Kurzbiographie Links Literatur Translate this page english français italiano español. rigoberta Menchú tum Friedensnobelpreis1992. Geboren 1959 in Chimel / Guatemala Kurzbiographie. rigoberta Menchú tum. http://www.uni-ulm.de/LiLL/3.0/D/frauen/menchu.htm

76. Latin America Trek: Rigoberta Menchu Tum Chat Transcript rigoberta Menchú tum is an inspiration to all of us who strive rigoberta Thank you. anindigenous woman, but also as president of the menchu foundation. more http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/rigoberta/transcripteng.html

Live Webcast, February 18, 1999! Click here for a printable version of the whole transcript. Abeja: Her life has been dedicated to bringing peace and justice to her country, Guatemala, which has been ravaged by a civil war for 36 years. Rigoberta: Thank you. Jamila: The first question is from the organization I*EARN. They would like to know: How has the struggle for your people changed since it began? "I would say that it has changed many things, above all, because there existed an armed conflict here in Guatemala that had high costs." more... Abeja: Earthharmony asks: How can we help the indigenous people in Central America from our homes in the United States? "Well, what you are doing is a way of helping in that you are not just sharing with us the good experiences that we have but also that people can know about our truth, our history." more... Jamila: Now we have a question from Jeff in the state of Idaho. He wants to know in what project or work are you concentrating now and how can children help you and support you in this project? "Well, I believe that the biggest thing we are doing now is reconstructing Guatemala. We are relocating the refugees who were in Mexico, who are returning to Guatemala, we have built some houses, we have built some schools."

77. Colegio Don Bosco Altamira rigoberta menchu describiendo su en 1992 recibió el Premio nobel de la http://www.aldeae.net/donbosco/aldea/biograf2.asp?which1=302

78. Race & Ethnicity: I, Rigoberta Menchu Interview with rigoberta menchu tum. On October 16, 1992, the Committee of the NobelPeace Prize At twenty years of age, rigoberta menchu had already lost her http://eserver.org/race/rigoberta-menchu-tum.html

This interview has been made available on the Internet by Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America (CODEHUCA). It was produced by Silvia Porras (General Coordination) and Anders Riis-Hansen (Journalist) and is provided as is. For more information please email codehuca@igc.apc.org. Interview with Rigoberta Menchu Tum Five Hundred Years of Sacrifice Before the Alien Gods. - For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it. - The struggle of the indigenous did not begin in 1992, and it will not end in 1992; it is simply an occasion to take advantage of the international attention. - 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. "It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?" The Guatemalan indigenous woman, Rigoberta Menchu, lowers her eyes and continues, pausing often, in the same ironic tone:

79. Rigoberta Menchú Tum Enlaces sobre rigoberta Menchú tum. Información en inglés. http//www.indians.org/welker/menchu.htm.http//www.edc.org/WomensEquity/WOW/menchu.html. http://www.wellesley.edu/Spanish/Span251/menchu.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rmtpaz/rmtbioin.htm http://www.indians.org/welker/menchu.htm http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/WOW/menchu.html http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/1992a.html ... http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/arc/lasnet/1995/0713.html Sus obras http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~uclucero/menchu.html http://www.indians.org/welker/menchu4.htm http://www.rolac.unep.mx/terram/esp/anio01/num01/0101part.htm Hecho por Virginia Slaughter: el 14 de diciembre de 1998.

80. LASNET Archive 1995: Rigoberta Menchu Tum Nephew Translate this page http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/arc/lasnet/1995/0713.html

Rigoberta Menchu Tum nephew Jose A. Sanahuja/Manuela Mesa sanamesa@skios.es Sat, 18 Nov 1995 17:10:59 -0600 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Nancy Uvalle del Castillo: "poniatowska" Previous message: Lucy Komisar: "Re: RIGOBERTA MENCHU'S INFANT NEPHEW KIDNAPPED (fwd)" IPS about the kidnapping: Guatemala: Secuestro de sobrino de Menchu fue extorsi=F3n Guatemala, 16 nov. (IPS) La Fundaci=F3n Rigoberta Menchu inst=F3 hoy a la= s autoridades de Guatemala a que inicien "una nueva y profunda fase de la investigaci=F3n" del secuestro simulado de su sobrino nieto, de menos de dos a=F1os. Cristina Menchu y su esposo, Miguel Vel=E1squez, familiares de Menchu, premi= o Nobel de la Paz 1992, fueron detenidos este mi=E9rcoles por la polic=EDa tra= s confesar que eran autores intelectuales del secuestro de su propio hijo, con el fin de pedir un rescate de 500,000 d=F3lares a la dirigente ind=EDgen= a. La Fundaci=F3n reclam=F3 la investigaci=F3n porque considera que Vel=E1squez= est=E1 encubriendo a otras personas "que tienen grave responsabilidad en la planificaci=F3n y ejecuci=F3n de este hecho criminal".

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