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Mexico Names Rigoberta Menchú Senior Adviser on Women’s and Indigenous Rights in Foreign Policy

The move links Mexico’s diplomacy to a broader equality push under President Claudia Sheinbaum with UNDP backing.

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Rigoberta Menchú, Premio Nobel de la Paz, en su nombramiento como Alta Consejera de la SRE en México.

Overview

  • Mexico’s Foreign Ministry announced the designation Friday in coordination with the UN Development Programme, placing Rigoberta Menchú in a senior advisory role.
  • In the post, Menchú will help design a single, coherent policy to promote and protect the rights of women, Indigenous peoples, and Afro‑Mexican communities.
  • The Foreign Ministry says the role will work with the Secretariat for Women and the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples to align plans and set clear lines of action.
  • The government frames the appointment as part of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s mandate to make substantive equality and interculturality central to Mexico’s work abroad.
  • Menchú brings global standing as a 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a former UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, a key figure in the 2007 UN Indigenous Rights Declaration process, and a naturalized Mexican citizen.