Activist Groups Hail Nobel Pick
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Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society
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Oct. 8, 2004 - Today Wangari Maathai was named the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
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Celebrity activist Bianca Jagger, along with two Indian religious scholars, an Argentinian scientist and a Russian human rights group, won the 2004 Right Livelihood Awards, known as the âalternative Nobels.
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The 2004 Nobel winners for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics were officially handed their awards in Stockholm by King Carl XVI Gustaf on Friday.
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Environment Deputy Minister Wangari Maathai (age 64) of Kenya was chosen for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Ole Danbolt Mjos, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee which is composed of five members, announced
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The award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to ecologist Wangari Maathai dominated the Kenya media as soon as the news broke. TV and radio channels on Friday reported the announcement extensively and Saturday&#39;s newspapers are similarly ecstatic.
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South African AIDS campaigner Zackie Achmat knows he's a long shot for the Nobel Peace Prize, but says his nomination is already a victory for the millions of people around the world battling the epidemic.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of  trees across Africa to slow deforestation.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari  Maathai said Friday she had been told by a Norwegian diplomat  that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday, saying he hoped the award would inspire "bold initiatives" to fight poverty and eradicate the root causes of terrorism.
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Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk and six  academics credited with breakthrough research on the origins of  life, the universe and economic policy accepted their Nobel  prizes in Stockholm on Sunday.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent&#39;s poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Nobel Peace show host Oprah Winfrey smiles in the Oslo Town Hall where Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya is to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Friday, Dec. 10, 2004.
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Ecologist Wangari Maathai urges global action to save the planet as she picks up her 2004 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
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IHURURU, Kenya Oct. 8, 2004 - When Wangari Maathai got word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she was campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to villagers suffering from
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Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai said she hopes being the first environmentalist to win the prize will help others understand that the struggle to protect the Earth's resources is linked to the promotion of peace.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of trees across Africa to slow deforestation.