Wangari Maathai became the first .............women to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace."

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• In ................., Wangari Maathai returned to Nairobi where she became the first East African women to receive a Ph.D - which she gained it in veterinary anatomy.
• .............. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005, and thePresidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
• Wangari Maathai was a …………environmental activist.
• Maathai led a movement to plant trees throughout ............... This became known as the Green Belt movement.
• The Green Belt movement was supported by the ............... Forestry Society and Maathai later gained a job as coordinator.
• In 1910, ................. formed the Bharat Stree Mandal (Great Circle of India Women) with the object of bringing together“women of all castes, creeds, classes and parties… on the basis of their common interest in the moral and material progress of the women of India.”
• In.............., the United Nations declared July 18 “Nelson Mandela International Day” in recognition of the South African leader’s contributions to democracy, freedom, peace and human rights around the world.
• In 2009 ............... joined the project "Soldiers of Peace", a movie against all wars and for a global peace.
• .............was in a sense the first all India women’s association with the clear objective of securing voting rights for women.
• Meanwhile in Ahmedabad, what was probably the first attempt at a women’s trade union was made with the formation of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) at the initiative of ................ in 1972.