Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala's second Nobel Prize winner, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her human rights work, especially on behalf of Indigenous peoples in Guatemala. As a Maya Quiché woman, her work in a fragmented society recovering from a 36-year long civil war has not been easy. Nevertheless, since 1992 she has continued her work both in Guatemala and abroad. In 2005, she filed a lawsuit against five people who shouted racist comments at her during a public hearing, which resulted in the first discrimination trial ever held in Guatemala. She won the case, and this helped to divulge the relatively new Law against Discrimination that was approved in the country in 2002.
A biography of Rigoberta Menchú can be found here:
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/contemporary-08.html
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