RIGOBERTA MENCH TUM

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RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ TUM

• Francis Benítez Domínguez 1ºB
• Lorena Villar Ríos 1ºB

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Her life

• Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a Guatemalan leader
  internationally known for her work in the
  promotion of the defence of human rights, peace
  and Indigenous Peoples' rights.
• Tum was born in 1959 in the village of Chimel
  (Guatemala).

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Her life

• In her youth she worked in the fields and later
  in the city as a domestic employee. She lived in
  the midst of the injustice, misery and
  discrimination suffered by the Indigenous Peoples
  of Guatemala.
• Various members of her family were tortured and
  assassinated by the repressive armed forces.
  Persecuted, Rigoberta was exiled to Mexico in
  1980.

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War crime trials?

• According to Nobel laureate, Rigoberta Menchu,
  with the memory of the war still fresh in the
  minds of millions of Guatemalans, expectations
  for the report are enormous.
• It could force international calls to consider
  war crimes prosecutions.

Rigoberta Menchú Memories of war fresh.
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War crime trials?

• At the very least, human rights workers hope the
  report will start the process of prosecutions
  inside Guatemala. To date no senior military
  officer has ever been convicted of abuses.
• The workers also hope it will encourage
  reconciliation and set up ways to ensure that the
  war can never be repeated.

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War crime trials?

• Rigoberta Menchú The World repudiate the
  attitude to EE.UU.".

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Nobel Peace Prize in 1992

• She received Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, becoming
  the first Indigenous and the youngest person ever
  to receive this distinction.
• For Rigoberta Menchú Tum, this Nobel Peace Prize
  acknowledges the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.
  It is also a symbolic recognition of the victims
  of repression, racism and poverty as well as an
  homage to Indigenous Women.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• In view of the urgent need for change in our
  society, the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation
  looks to contribute in the following ways
• Prevention of conflicts, mediation for the
  negotiated solution of conflicts. Preservation of
  peace. Development, social justice, diversity and
  plurality as a base for peace. Support of
  Indigenous communities affected by conflict.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• Promotion of human rights.
• Respect for life, social justice and democracy.
  Civil, political, cultural, economic and social
  rights.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Land, culture, liberty, sovereignty, education,
  development of an integral community, health
  care, access to national and international
  instruments of justice, community rights over
  individual rights.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• Values of Indigenous Peoples
• Promotion of their world view. Culture, ethics,
  history, harmony with nature, respect for
  diversity, refusal of racism, discrimination and
  subordination.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• Women's rights
• Rights specific to the Indigenous woman, right to
  full participation, to take part in all decisions
  that concern them, equality in all areas, health
  care, education, culture, identity, right to own
  land and the right to organize.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• Women's rights
• Rights of children and youth as a guarantee of
  the future.
• Better quality of life, health care, multilingual
  and multi-cultural education, the right to
  progress.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• Development
• Right to options of development with respect to
  the cultural values and traditions of the
  communities. Development with social justice.
  Right to sustainable development. Dignified
  quality of life.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• Development
• To support the communication and relationship
  between the different Indigenous Peoples. Help to
  obtain support for projects of different
  Indigenous communities of the world.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• International Decade of Indigenous Peoples
  Worldwide
• Active promotion and participation in the
  development of the International Decade of
  Indigenous Peoples Worldwide declared by the UN
  in December of 1994.

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Goals of the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

• International Decade of Indigenous Peoples
  Worldwide
• Promote and divulge the causes, values and rights
  of Indigenous Peoples to stimulate concrete
  actions that support the initiatives of said
  people in order to improve their conditions of
  life and preserve their cultural identity.

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Her books

• There was another book released in the late 90's
  called "Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of all
  Poor Guatemalans"

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Her books

• In 1983 her testimonial book, I, Rigoberta
  Menchú, An Indian Woman in Guatemala , was
  published, followed by various of her texts and
  poems.

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Herself

• Self-educated, she has shown herself to be a
  natural leader of great intelligence. She became
  an active political worker in labour, compassion
  and human rights groups as well as in the defence
  and promotion of the rights and values of
  Indigenous Peoples.