Rosalina Tuyuc

Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez (born San Juan Comalapa, department of Chimaltenango, 1956) [ [http://www.paqg.org/article.php3?id_article=21&sq=promo Entrevue avec Rosalina Tuyuc] Projet Accompagnement Québec-Guatemala, 2003-11-17] is a is a Guatemalan human rights activist. She was elected as a Congressional deputy in 1995, elected from the national list of the New Guatemala Democratic Front, and served as Vice President of Congress during that period. [ [http://www.politicaonline.net/forum/showthread.php?p=477184 Rosalina Tuyuc: verità per il Guatemala] 2003-04-02] Tuyuc is a Kaqchikel Mayan. [cite news
title = Mayan Pupils Allowed to Wear Traditional Attire
publisher = New York Times
date = 1999-04-08
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DC1438F93BA35757C0A96F958260
accessdate = 2008-06-23]

In June 1982, the Guatemalan Army kidnapped and murdered her father, Francisco Tuyuc. Three years later, on 24 May 1985, her husband suffered the same fate. [cite web
last = Rico
first = Maite
title = "We can't forgive until we have justice"
publisher = The UNESCO Courier
date = December 1999]
url=http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_12/uk/dossier/intro03.htm
accessdate = 2008-06-23 ] In 1988 she founded the National Association of Guatemalan Widows (CONAVIGUA), which has become a leading Guatemalan human rights organization. [Citation
last=Martinez
first=Emma
title=A November Full of Pitfalls
newspaper=Revista Envio
issue=150
year=1994
date=January 1994
url=http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1743.]

In 1994, Tuyuc was decorated by the French Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur for her humanitarian activities. [ [http://www.derechos.org/soa/guat-not.html School of the Americas Watch] ] On 6 July 2004 President Óscar Berger appointed her to chair the National Reparations Commission "(Comisión Nacional de Resarcimiento)". [ [http://guatemala.usembassy.gov/hrr2004guatemala.html Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2004: Guatemala] United States Department of State, 2005-02-28]

References

ee also

* Guatemalan Civil War

External links

* [http://www.1000peacewomen.org/typo/index.php?id=14&L=1&WomenID=82 Biographical information] from PeaceWomen Across the Globe.