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 ...

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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Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on environmentalism and social justice. She was born in 1940 into a Kenya still under British colonial rule ...