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English: Title: Wangari Maathai: and the green belt movement. Series: UNESCO series on women in African history Other lang. series issues: Série UNESCO femmes dans l'histoire de l'Afrique Imprint: Paris, UNESCO, 2014 Country: France Publ Year: 2014 Collation: 60 p., illus. Original Language: English Other Lang. versions: French ISBN ISSN: 978 ...
Wangarĩ Maathai (/ w æ n ˈ ɡ ɑː r i m ɑː ˈ ð aɪ /; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, [2] [3] an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.
Maathai discusses her life from childhood until she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She discusses her childhood, education in the United States and her return to Kenya, moving on to her life as an environmentalist and political activist, culminating with the victory of the opposition in the 2002, elections against the ruling KANU party and her election to parliament, followed ...
Dirt! The Movie is a 2009 American documentary film directed by filmmakers Gene Rosow and Bill Benenson and narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. It was inspired by William Bryant Logan's book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth. The documentary starred environmentalists like Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paul Stamets, and Bill Logan.
The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film on the state of the natural environment created, produced, co-written and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures.
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Sukarno gives a speech on Pancasila, one of the first to be heard by the Barisan Banteng, 1 June 1945.. The Suishintai (Japanese: 推進体, romanized: Suishintai, lit. 'Pioneer Corps', Indonesian: Barisan Pelopor) was the paramilitary youth wing of the Jawa Hōkōkai (ジャワ奉公会, "Javanese Service Society") which was formed in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) under Japanese ...