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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Kenya will regret its failure to protect the environment, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai said on Sunday.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
As a senior official at the United Nation headquarters, Dr Asha-Rose Migiro of Tanzania joins such towering African female figures as Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson, Kenya's 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai -- and two other Tanzanians: Pan-African Parliament President Gertrude Mongella -- who was behind the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference's success -- and UN Habitat...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Britannica contributor Jody Williams , along with Nobelist Wangari Maathai and actress/activist Mia Farrow, have led in recent weeks a delegation from the Nobel Women's Initiative to the Thai-Burma border, South Sudan, and Chad "to amplify women's efforts for peace and justice, with a view to promoting effective resolutions to the political crises facing...
Words of Power (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Image: Tara, the Green Goddess of Mercy, and Her Twenty-One Emanations Rape is increasingly being used as a tool of war in ethnic conflicts in Darfur and Myanmar, wrecking families and communities, two women Nobel peace laureates [Jody Williams and Wangari Maathai] warned Tuesday. ... The duo, accompanied by actress-activist Mia Farrow and other rights campaigners, visited clinics and...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Rape is increasingly being used as a tool of war in ethnic conflicts in Darfur and Myanmar, wrecking families and communities, two women Nobel peace laureates warned Tuesday.Jody Williams, who spearheaded a campaign banning antipersonnel landmines, and Wangari Maathai, an outspoken advocate for greater democracy in Africa, said women were paying “the highest price” in the violent conflicts.The...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... I would like to draw the attention of the naysayers to a globally quoted piece of gem by Prof Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Peace laureate that it is not the generation that destroys the environment that is condemned to suffer the consequences. At present , the global community is more aware of the crisis posed by environmental degradation due to adverse effects of global warming. However,...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... warned Tuesday.Jody Williams, who spearheaded a campaign banning antipersonnel landmines, and Wangari Maathai, an outspoken advocate for greater democracy in Africa, said women were paying "the highest price" in the violent conflicts.The duo, accompanied by actress-activist Mia Farrow and other rights campaigners, visited clinics and refugee camps to hear first-hand the plight of...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Rape is increasingly being used as a tool of war in ethnic conflicts in Darfur and Myanmar, wrecking families and communities, two women Nobel peace laureates warned Tuesday.Jody Williams, who spearheaded a campaign banning antipersonnel landmines, and Wangari Maathai, an outspoken advocate for greater democracy in Africa, said women were paying "the highest price" in the violent conflicts.The...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Uganda: Do More to Help Darfur, Nobel Laureates Tell China3 August 2008Badru MulumbaA delegation of women Nobel Laureates and an American actress on Friday asked China to step up its role in ending what they called genocide in Darfur.Laureates Wangari Maathai and Jody Williams, and American actress turned Darfur activist Mia Farrow visited Juba, as part of a tour starting from Burma and...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, coltan, tin, timber and more. Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai rightly assesses the problem when she notes, "these wars when you look at them, they are all about resources and who is going to control them." Beneficiaries of Congo's resource war include foreign corporations and consumers. Senator Sam Brownback reminds us that "almost...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
At the meeting also attended by Nobel laureate Prof Wangari Maathai, Mr Marende said third world countries should ratify and domesticate international agreements and conventions in order to benefit from rapidly growing globalisation trends.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... docket.In the 1980s and 1990s, we would roar with laughter at President Moi's vilification of Prof Wangari Maathai's environmental conservation efforts as the antics of a mad woman.Looking back, this collective indifference to Mother Nature is all the regime needed to wage a scorched earth war against our natural heritage, with the Karura Forest and the Mau as the most outstanding...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... with the wetland because we need biofuel and sugar," Kenyan Nobel laureate and environmentalist Wangari Maathai said.Earlier this month, Kenya's High Court ordered a temporary halt to the project pending a judicial review of its impact. But the government is determined to overcome that hurdle.Mumias, a Nairobi bourse blue-chip company that has a controlling stake in the project, plans...
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... with the wetland because we need biofuel and sugar," Kenyan Nobel laureate and environmentalist Wangari Maathai said.Earlier this month, Kenya's High Court ordered a temporary halt to the project pending a judicial review of its impact. But the government is determined to overcome that hurdle.Mumias, a Nairobi bourse blue-chip company that has a controlling stake in the project, plans...
