Professor Wangari Maathai contributed over many decades ... pioneer in articulating the links between human rights, poverty, environmental protection and security — for which she was awarded ...

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The awards champion local energy solutions to protect the environment, reduce poverty and improve people’s lives. ABOVE: Wangari Maathai discusses the relationship between scarce natural ...

said nobody can talk about climate change without remembering Prof Maathai. "Through her advocacy for environmental justice and women empowerment, we have food security. The trees that were ...

My name is Wangari Maathai. In my country of Kenya, I became famous for helping groups of local people, and protecting the environment. That’s not how everybody saw it, oh no! Many people in the ...

Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s. She focused ...

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However, Maathai continued to campaign for social justice and environmental issues and received international recognition. Although specific mentions of her work were edited out of foreign news ...

In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s.

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) launched the first Wangari Maathai Award in 2012 to honour the memory of Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, who championed forests around the ...