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	Notre Dame Prize recipient Helen Mack to deliver lecture Oct. 31


    
      
        
          Notre Dame Prize recipient Helen Mack to deliver lecture Oct. 31

          
            
              
                
                Published: October 23, 2006
              

              
                Author: Shannon  Roddel
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Helen Mack Chang, one ofGuatemala’s most vocal advocates for justice and reconciliation of the countrys 36-year civil war and last years recipient of the Notre Dame Prize for Distinguished Public Service inLatin America, will deliver a lecture at7 p.m.Oct. 31 (Tuesday) in the auditorium of the UniversitysHesburghCenterfor International Studies. **

TitledLa Muerte es Vida (Death is Life),the talk is free and open to the public and will be delivered in Spanish with simultaneous translation in English.It will recount Macks fight to bring members of the Guatemalan military to justice for thousands of political killings, including the assassination of her sister, Myrna, and detail her creation of the Myrna Mack Foundation in 1993.

An anthropologist, Myrna Mack was stabbed to death in 1990 by members of a military death squad in response to her investigations of the destruction and massacre of entire indigenous communities by the Guatemalan military.

Helen Mack has succeeded in making significant progress in the fight for human rights, reform of the judiciary system, and fortification of the rule of law.In addition, she obtained the conviction of one of the soldiers accused of committing the crime against her sisterand several years later, the conviction of one of the three officers accused of masterminding her murder.

Mack is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including the Swedish Parliaments Right Livelihood Award, known as analternative Nobel Prize.

The event is sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies , which awards the NotreDame Prize annually to leading political, civil and religious figures inLatin America.

* Contact: *  _Kelly Roberts, Kellogg Institute, 574-631-9184, krobert2@nd.edu 

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