Japan: Guatemalan Rosalina Velasquez Tuyuc awarded 29th Niwano Peace Prize

Spero News Thursday 1st March, 2012

Tokyo - Guatemalan Rosalina Tuyuc Velasquez is the winner of the 29th Niwano Peace Prize.Rosalina Tuyuc Velasquez, 55, is an activist for human rights, especially for the defense of Maya traditions. President in her youth of the Catholic Masculine and Feminine Labor Action of San Juan Comalapa, her hometown lies in the mountains of central Guatemal...

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