Category: Human Rights

manifesto story team index roadmap projects we support FAQs X Wangari Maathai (Kenya, 1940 – 2011) – was a Kenyan social, environmental and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy,… Continue reading Wangari Maathai

manifesto story team index roadmap projects we support FAQs X Vasili Arkhipov (Russia, 1926 – 1998) was a Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a Soviet nuclear strike (and, potentially, all-out nuclear war) during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Such an attack likely would have caused a major global thermonuclear response. As flotilla chief of staff… Continue reading Vasili Arkhipov