Rigoberta Menchu Tum |
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Guatemala | Nobel Prizes UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
Doctor Rigoberta Menchu Tum, from the K'iche-Maya indigenous group, is renowned for her leadership at the forefront of the social struggle in national and international matters, a career that was recognised in 1992 with the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1979 she was a founder member of the United Peasant Committee and the Unitary Representation of the Guatemalan Opposition of which she formed part of its executive until 1992. She was named as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN in the International Year of Indigenous Peoples and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
I want to send a very special greeting to all the friends who are generating this energy around the whole world for peace and nonviolence, and to be in favour of life and citizen participation, because finally, for me, peace is wellbeing. It is having food. It is having tranquillity. It is even enjoying family life and this is what we are missing in the world. Above all I want to call on young people to participate in this movement for peace, making their self-esteem prevail, their link with other people, giving encouragement to women so that they participate and giving advice so that they also know that they can change the destiny of humanity. That they can make a better world, participating in these actions, like this global action for peace.
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