Nobel Peace Prize winner hosts international Green Party conference in Nairobi Kenya May 1st-4th 2008

	Dr. Wangari Maathai

Update from the Global Green Coordination, www.globalgreens.info 

Nairobi, Kenya will be the location of the next Global Greens meeting on May 1st-4th, 2008. Over the years this gathering of Green members from around the world has grown in participants. Organizers expect a good turn-out with next year's conference co-hosted by Kenyan Green professor Wangari Maathai, the first Green and first African woman ever to the receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Global Greens Nairobi is planning for an action-oriented agenda, aiming to coordinate Green Party work on important global issues and strengthen Green politics internationally.

An inspiration to Greens everywhere, Maathai has committed her life to the environment, women's rights, peace and democracy. She founded the Green Belt Move­ment in Kenya in 1977 and the Mazingira Green Party in Kenya in 2003. She has also been Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife since 2003. She founded the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya in 2003.

The First Planetary Meeting of Greens was held May 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, immediately preceding the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and was attended by 250 Greens from 28 countries. The first Global Greens Conference was held April 2001 in Canberra, Australia, where 800 Greens from 72 countries passed the first Global Green Charter. 

The Global Greens launch this year with a meeting of the Global Young Greens, and the World Social Forum, both being held in Nairobi in January 2007. Also the Global Greens have started planning for Nairobi 2008 establishing an international planning committee. New York Green Julia Willebrand is a member in her role as one of three co-presidents of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas, while California Green Mike Feinstein participates as web master of the Global Greens website.

To see the Global Greens Charter and a highlight video of Canberra 2001, or for more information about Nairobi 2008, including a sign up for pre-conference email updates, go to www.globalgreens.info 

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