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Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú speaks at a UN conference on Indigenous Peoples during 2014. Menchú is a human rights activist and Nobel Prize laureate.

she escaped across the border to Mexico. She decided to tell the world what had happened to her family and to all the other protesters, by writing a memoir. Her book I, Rigoberta Menchú, an Indian Woman in Guatemala was published in 1983. Her message was simple: “Native Americans are people and we want to be respected, not to be the victims of intolerance or racism.” After her book was published, Rigoberta dedicated the rest of her life to campaigning for human rights. She received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in 1992. Rigoberta used her Nobel Prize money to fund an organization, named after her

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What Are Human Rights?