Nobel Peace Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu Will Deliver Sept. 22 Talk at NIU
September 03, 2009
September 03, 2009
DEKALB, Ill., Sept. 3 -- Northern Illinois University issued the following news release:
Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, an activist for indigenous Guatemalans whose personal story of triumph brought their plight to the world's attention, will visit NIU this month for a public lecture.
Menchu was awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to protect the rights of indigenous peoples during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996). Only 12 women have re . . .
Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, an activist for indigenous Guatemalans whose personal story of triumph brought their plight to the world's attention, will visit NIU this month for a public lecture.
Menchu was awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to protect the rights of indigenous peoples during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996). Only 12 women have re . . .