Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally. The Nobel Peace Prize 1992, announced October 16, 1992. Rigoberta Menchú Tum, “for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”. Rigoberta Menchú Tum: born 1959, Aldea Chimel, Guatemala. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).