{news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] GREEN CAMPAIGNER WANGARI MAATHAI TO BECOME UN MESSENGER OF PEACE

[Tim McKee]

She was a Green Party member from Kenya

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:10:06 -0500
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GREEN CAMPAIGNER WANGARI MAATHAI TO BECOME UN MESSENGER OF PEACE
New York, Dec 14 2009 12:10PM
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and green advocate Wangari Maathai will
become a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on the
environment and climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
<"http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/note6239.doc.htm">announced
today.

Mr. Ban told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that Ms. Maathai
of Kenya will be inducted as a Messenger of Peace at a ceremony tomorrow
afternoon in Copenhagen, where the UN climate change conference is taking
place.

“Professor Maathai’s long record of achievement in environmental
conservation and sustainable development makes her an excellent choice,”
the Secretary-General said.

Professor Maathai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, founded the
grassroots group known as the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more
than 40 million trees on community lands across Africa and worked to
improve environmental conservation and reduce poverty.

The only African woman to win that award, Professor Maathai has also
served as a Government minister, lawmaker, academic and women’s rights
advocate over the past four decades.
Messengers of Peace are individuals widely recognized for their talents
in the arts, academia, sports, entertainment and other fields who work to
help raise worldwide awareness of UN ideals and activities.
Through their public appearances, contacts with the international media
and humanitarian work, they expand public understanding of how the UN
helps to improve the lives of people everywhere.
The other Messengers of Peace and their areas of focus include: conductor
Daniel Barenboim (peace and tolerance); actor George Clooney
(peacekeeping); author Paulo Coelho (poverty and intercultural dialogue);
actor Michael Douglas (disarmament); primatologist Jane Goodall
(conservation and environmental issues) and violinist Midori Goto
(Millennium Development Goals and Youth).
The other five Messengers are: Princess Haya Bint al Hussein (Millennium
Development Goals and hunger); cellist Yo-Yo Ma (youth); actor Charlize
Theron (ending violence against women); Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel (human
rights); and singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (people with disabilities).
Dec 14 2009 12:10PM
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