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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

GUATEMALA CITY – The Nobel Peace Prize is no stranger to controversy. Since its inception more than 100 years ago, the $1.2 million accolade has sparked debate throughout the world. In 1973, Henry ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, setting off centuries of oppression of native peoples. Five hundred years later, in 1992, Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in ...

Rigoberta Menchú 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 ...