{"id":406,"date":"2018-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/uncategorized\/406\/greenpeace-africas-executive-director-wins-a-prestigious-human-rights-award\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:22:49","slug":"greenpeace-africas-executive-director-wins-a-prestigious-human-rights-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/406\/greenpeace-africas-executive-director-wins-a-prestigious-human-rights-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Executive Director Wins a Prestigious Human Rights Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader\">Nairobi, January 30, 2018: Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Executive Director, Njeri Kabeberi, has won the 2017 Munir Mazrui \u2018Lifetime Achievement Human Rights Defenders Award\u2019 in a ceremony organised by the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (NCHRD-K) at the Royal Netherlands embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. This is one of three categories of Human Rights Defenders (HRD) Awards launched in 2016 to recognise and honour the work of human rights defenders in Kenya.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>NCHRD-K is a national organization that promotes the safety and security of human rights defenders in Kenya through advocacy, capacity building and protection. It works in partnership with a Working Group on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, chaired by the Royal Netherlands Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the award, Kamau Ngugi, Executive Director of the HRDs coalition in Kenya said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNjeri is a selfless Woman Human Rights Defender who has broken chains of patriarchy to lead successful campaigns for justice, good governance and human rights in Kenya and beyond. Njeri has mentored many and her recent advances in the environmental protection crowns her lifelong commitment to human rights promotion and protection that deserves recognition and celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving the award, Njeri Kabeberi said she was humbled and honoured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite having received a number of International Awards this is the first time I have been recognised in my own country \u2013 and since it is said that a \u2018prophet is never recognised in their own home\u2019 this then becomes the biggest victory and the sweetest award to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman rights defenders work is lonely and hardly appreciated but I know that focus, persistence and resilience always causes the desired impact. We earn our freedom when we learn to face fear head on; that is what others call courage\u201d continued Ms Kabeberi.<\/p>\n<p>Njeri\u2019s activism career spans over three decades; as a young girl in 1982, she quietly began supporting mothers and wives of political prisoners but her human rights work was only thrown into limelight a decade later when she was invited to the late Prof. Wangari Maathai\u2019s house to join the organization of the campaign to release Kenyan political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>With this long history in human rights activism, Njeri is now leading Greenpeace Africa into a new wave of environmental justice for Africans by Africans. Human rights is inextricably linked to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we won the human rights and governance battle, but lost our planet, we would have lost everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy current vision is to build an Environmental Movement in Africa so powerful that African citizens begin to take responsibility for their future.This can be achieved by restoring the continent through green pathways and seeking global environmental justice to mitigate climate change impacts\u201d concluded Kabeberi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">hdena@greenpeace.org<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- document.write(dc('Eoi_1', 'DF_E1_BE_F0_E3_BE_B1_BA_9B_FF_B1_BA_B3_B3_BA_97_E1_FD_B8_AD_B0_F1_BA_BC_BE_BA_AF_B1_BA_BA_AD_B8_9F_BE_B1_BA_BB_B7_E5_B0_AB_B3_B6_BE_B2_FD_E2_B9_BA_AD_B7_FF_BE_E3'));\/\/--><\/script>, \u00a0Communication Officer,\u00a0+ 254 708 056 207<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tNairobi, January 30, 2018: Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Executive Director, Njeri Kabeberi, has won the 2017  Munir Mazrui \u2018Lifetime Achievement Human Rights Defenders Award\u2019 in a ceremony organised by the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (NCHRD-K) at the Royal Netherlands embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. 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