Лауреат Нобелевской премии мира за 2004 год, кенийка Вангари Маатаи, известная как борец за охрану окружающей среды и защитница прав женщин, скончалась от рака в больнице Найроби. Маатаи была первой африканской женщиной, получившей Нобелевскую премию.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai shows her prize to a cheering crowd as she returns from Norway, in Nairobi in this December 30, 2004 file photo. Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has died in hospital after a long struggle with cancer, her environmental organisation the Green Belt Movement said on September 26, 2011.
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Маатаи была первой африканской женщиной, получившей Нобелевскую премию.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai (R) receives the Gold Medal and the Diploma from the Chairman of the Nobel Committee Ole Danbolt Mjoes (L) during a ceremony in Oslo in this December 10, 2004 file photo. Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer, her organisation the Green Belt Movement said on September 26, 2011. Maathai, who won the 2004 Nobel Prize, was the founder of Green Belt Movement, a civil and women rights activist and also served as a Member of Parliament.
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С получением высокой награды Вангари Маатаи в 2004 году в Осло поздравляли ведущая ток-шоу Орпа Уинфри и актер Том Круз.
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Маатаи была инициатором создания и главным вдохновителем основанного в 1977 году общественного движения "Зеленый пояс". Организация занимается восстановлением уничтоженных лесов Кении.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai (C) speaks to U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William Bellamy (2nd R) and his Finnish counterpart Matti Kaariainen during a tour of the Gatamaiyo water falls in the Aberdare Mountain Ranges, 80 km (50 miles) west of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, in this September 2, 2005 file photo. Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has died in hospital after a long struggle with cancer, her environmental organisation the Green Belt Movement said on September 26, 2011.
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rance's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) embraces Kenya's 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai on the last day of "Grenelle de l'Environnement" ecological talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris in this October 25, 2007 file photo. Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has died in hospital after a long struggle with cancer, her environmental organisation the Green Belt Movement said on September 26, 2011.
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Бывший вице-президент США Альберт Гор в 2009 году вручил Вангари Маатаи премию Национальной ассоциации содействия прогрессу цветного населения. NAACP - крупная общественная организация США, основанная для защиты прав чёрного населения.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai attends the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, also known as COP15, at the Bella center in Copenhagen in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer, her organisation the Green Belt Movement said on September 26, 2011. Maathai, who won the 2004 Nobel Prize, was the founder of Green Belt Movement, a civil and women rights activist and also served as a Member of Parliament.
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