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 ...

With the sad news of Wangari Maathai's death on Sunday night (25 September), we celebrate the life and philosophy of an extraordinary woman via a series of video clips, below. Maathai, a veteran ...

Last summer in Watkins, Minn., a priest began by reminding the congregation that the parish festival was about to begin, and out of respect for the women who had already laid out the food and ...

4 African Women Trailblazers in Championing Peace and Security Wangari Maathai (Kenya) The late Wangari Maathai was the first ...

A 21-year-old Kenyan woman has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest time spent hugging a tree. Truphena Muthoni ...

Ms Kagiri said Prof Maathai would facilitate women groups within ... At Ihithe Village, home to the late Prof Wangari, Peter Muta Nderitu, a nephew to the late explained his aunt's passion for ...

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.

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 ...