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Education
Maathai received her Bachelor's in Biology from Mount St. Scholastica (now Benedictine College) in 1964, and her master's from the University of Pittsburgh, before returning to Nairobi, where, at the University of Nairobi, she earned the first Ph.D. awarded to an Eastern African woman (in veterinary medicine). In 1971, she became professor for veterinary anatomy at the University of Nairobi, and then later dean of her faculty. In 2002 Maathai accepted a position as Visiting Fellow at Yale University's Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry.
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Activism and political life
Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement - a grass-roots environmental lobby - in 1977, which planted 12 million trees across the country to prevent soil erosion. She came to be affectionately called "Tree Woman". Since then, she has been increasingly active on both environmental and women's issues.
Maathai was also the former chairperson of Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (the National Council of Women of Kenya). In the 1980s her husband divorced her, saying she was too strong-minded for a woman.
In 1997, in Kenya's second multi-party elections marred by ethnic violence, she ran for president of Kenya, but her party withdrew her candidacy. Under the regime of President Daniel Arap Moi, she was imprisoned several times and violently attacked for demanding multi-party elections and an end to corruption and tribal politics. She almost single-handedly won the fight to save Nairobi's Uhuru Park by stopping the construction of a giant 60-storey Kenya Times Media Trust business complex by Moi's business associates. Maathai was elected to parliament in 2002 when Mwai Kibaki defeated Uhuru Kenyatta. She has been Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife since 2003. She founded the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya in 2003.
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Nobel Peace Prize
"Maathai stood up courageously against the former oppressive regime in Kenya" the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement announcing her as the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner. "Her unique forms of action have contributed to drawing attention to political oppression - nationally and internationally. She has served as inspiration for many in the fight for democratic rights and has especially encouraged women to better their situation."
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Controversy
Immediately after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Maathai caused a stir among media commentators when in inteviews she spoke out in favor of the claim that the HIV virus was the product of bio-engineering, and then released in Africa by unidentified Western scientists as a weapon of mass destruction. The claim is supported by only a small minority, including Wangari, and is one of many AIDS conspiracy theories. Her statements on this issue were made at a press conference following the announcement of the Nobel award. This caused some embarrassment for the award committee when questioned by the press, as they had not been aware of her views on this issue. See also Controversy links below.
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Awards
1984: Right Livelihood Award (a.k.a. "Alternative Nobel Prize")
1991: Goldman Environmental Prize
1991: Africa Prize
1993: Edingburg Medal (for "Outstanding contribution to Humanity through Science")
2004: Petra Kelly Prize
2004: Sophie Prize.
2004: Nobel Peace Prize
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 جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | salwa elsaeed | 10-10-04, 06:25 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | almulaomar | 10-12-04, 02:14 AM |
 Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | salwa elsaeed | 10-12-04, 07:42 AM |
 Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | waleedi399 | 10-12-04, 07:55 AM |
 Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | Raja | 10-12-04, 07:51 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | Kostawi | 10-12-04, 10:56 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | Kostawi | 10-12-04, 11:05 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | Abdel Aati | 10-12-04, 04:29 PM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | salwa elsaeed | 10-14-04, 01:06 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | Omayma Alfargony | 10-14-04, 04:51 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | abdalla BABIKER | 10-14-04, 07:43 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | almulaomar | 10-15-04, 11:38 PM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | Kostawi | 12-10-04, 10:06 PM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | AnwarKing | 12-11-04, 08:46 AM |
| Re: جائرة نوبل للسلام تحوز عليها المرأة الكينية الخضراء | AnwarKing | 12-11-04, 08:54 AM |
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