Kaisha Atakhanova

Activists

Kaisha Atakhanova is the Founder and Director of EcoCenter in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, and the Coordinator of the national Anti-Nuclear Campaign in Kazakhstan. This campaign, spearheaded by Kaisha and her colleagues, mobilized largely women citizens to stop the government from weakening the legislation against commercial import and storage of radioactive waste in 2003. In recognition of her accomplishments, Kaisha received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005, which she plans to use to establish a Socio-Ecological Investment Fund to support women’s initiatives and NGO activists in the region.

Asia

Environmental

Kazakhstan

Almaty

WGGAN Global Map

This is a map to detail the participants and sponsored projects around the world of the Women's Global Green Action Network, the planet's first grassroots environmental network specially focused on women's interface with environmental justice.