Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai Changed the World

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. A true visionary and leader of peace.  Her life saved many lives and changed the world. I'm grateful to have known her. http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/

“Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.”


“You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.”

Nobel Peace Laureates: International Community Must Commit to Real Peace in Burma and Darfur

The Green Belt Movement International
August 12, 2008
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We must keep up the pressure on the world’s superpowers to ‘do the right thing’ in Darfur and Burma—and create the conditions for long-lasting peace and democracy. This, from a group of prominent women who recently returned from a three-week delegation to Asia and Africa where they met with women’s groups, government officials and representatives from international organizations, and visited clinics and refugee camps to hear first-hand what is required to bring a sustainable peace to these areas.

Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams (1997) and Wangari Maathai (2004) were accompanied by other notable women including actress-activist Mia Farrow, and the Chair of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, Dr. Sima Samar, as they traveled for three weeks to countries that are directly linked to the crises in Burma and Darfur.

“The inspirational efforts for peace by women on the ground--made at a huge risk to their personal safety--deserve the support and recognition of the international community,” says Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on banning anti-personnel landmines. “It is inexcusable for certain nations to directly support regimes that are oppressing their people and committing systematic, widespread violence against women.” click here to continue