Overview

• The Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana, through its PRS agency, organized the magistral talk at CEFERESO No. 16 with officials and the National Human Rights Commission present.
• Menchú, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, delivered the lecture titled “Ser Humano y Autoconocimiento” to roughly 200 incarcerated women.
• Her remarks emphasized self-knowledge, ancestral memory and human dignity, focusing on people living in contexts of incarceration and vulnerability.
• She urged hope and empowerment, telling attendees, “We must share our smile even in a storm; we have to be happy, that is the only objective.”
• Authorities framed the event as part of a humanistic penitentiary policy that makes education and culture pillars of effective social reintegration.