Rigoberta Menchú Tum met all these mentors’in San Francisco in the early ‘80s. Now a renowned human rights activist, she was 23 at the time, and it was about a decade before she won the 1992 Nobel ...

Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú (photo by Carlos Rodriguez/Agencia de Noticias Andes, CC BY-NC 2.0) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

The puzzling election loss of Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala’s first indigenous presidential candidate. By Marc Lacey Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu scores murder of Guillermo Ovalle, ...

- Hundreds of area students heard a message of how their individual actions can change the world Friday from a 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner who is in Kalamazoo this weekend for the annual PeaceJam ...

Days after Guatemala’s former U.S.-backed dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, was convicted of genocide, we’re joined by a woman largely responsible for making sure he was brought to justice. Rigoberta ...

Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, visited two at-risk Denver communities yesterday, not to preach peace but to preach “harmony.” For Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual teachers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dawn Engle is co-founder of PeaceJam, an international education program based in Arvada that brings young people into contact with Nobel Peace Prize winners ...

MEXICO CITY — Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Maya Indian who has long been a symbol of indigenous pride and defiance, has announced that she will be a candidate in Guatemala’s ...

Laced with cautious optimism, the firm voice of Guatemalan icon and Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum proclaims her conviction that Indigenous people can harness filmmaking as social catalyst.

MANILA, Philippines - She is fondly called “The First Lady of Philippine Musical Theater” mostly because her résumé would be the envy of any Broadway star. To list just a few of her past roles: Eva ...