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 ...

Hello! I am very pleased to meet you! 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...