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Women
Environmentalists Demand End to Gender Apartheid
13 October 2004 - Unraveling the impact of toxic chemicals on women
and girls and pin pointing their role in the environmental recovery
of war-torn zones are among the recommendations made today at the close
of a landmark UN Environment Programme conference called WAVE.
UNEP
Hosts First Women's Environment Assembly [Français]
11 October 2004 – More than 140 prominent women environmentalists
from 60 countries, including seven environment ministers and other high
level representatives, are meeting at the headquarters of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi between 11 and 13 October
to express their concerns about the global environment.
Speeches
Statement
by Prof. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, during
the opening of the conference of women ministers for the environment
and the global women’s assembly on environment: Women As the Voice
for the Environment (WAVE).
Videos
Curtain
raiser - Opening video (Windows Media Video File):
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Crossing
the Divide, Part 1 - TVE programme
16 July, 2004 – In a two-part programme, Earth Report talks to
four environmental activists who have become leading politicians. Their
backgrounds could not be more different, but they have all used their
green campaigning, as a springboard into politics. Earth Report finds
out what motivated them to become politicians, and asks them if they
believe they made the right move joining the political establishment?
In Part 1 we meet Wangari Maathai, founder of the Kenya's Greenbelt
reforestation movement, who became a government minister, and we meet
Tuenjai Deetes, the Thai Senator who made her name as an environmental
campaigner.
Photo
Gallery
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a selection of pictures from the opening ceremony
