Professor Wangari Maathai contributed over many decades to furthering the ideals and objectives of the United Nations. A globally recognized champion for human rights and women’s empowerment ...

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.

My name is Wangari Maathai. In my country of Kenya ... But I couldn’t just give up… because what we were doing was far too important! I was born in the mountains of Kenya in the year 1940.

Ms Kagiri said Prof Maathai would facilitate women groups within ... The trees that were planted more than ten years ago are giving us social, economic, mental, and aesthetic value," Ms Kanene ...

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be ... “Nobody would have bothered me if all I did was to encourage women to plant trees.” Maathai said. In her Nobel acceptance speech, Maathai said: “I ...