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desmond tutu

March 19, 2007

Tutu says Africa should be ashamed at Zimbabwe repression

The Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, has said that Africa's silence over Mugabe's crimes is a stain on its conscience.
February 16, 2007

Desmond Tutu backs campaign to stop drug companies profiting from the poor

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa has urged the drug company, Novartis, to stop its court action against patent laws in India, which he says will harm the interests of the poorest and most vulnerable in society.
January 30, 2007

Discrimination against gay people is like apartheid, says Tutu

Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has warned that an unhealthy obsession with homosexuality means African churches risk ignoring real problems facing the continent ‚Ä' and has added that the mistreatment of lesbian gay people is like apartheid.
January 24, 2007

Tutu says that the war against terror cannot be won by force

The war against terror in the world will "never" be won by force and injustice, and will remain a problem "as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate," like dehumanizing poverty, disease and ignorance, Nobel laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has told participants at the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya.
January 22, 2007

Tutu says men have messed up the world and women hold the key

Speaking at the grassroots World Social Forum, gathered in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa has urged women to launch a nonviolent social revolution to rectify all the the world problems created by men.
March 24, 2004

Tutu visits death row inmate

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been to death row in Texas to visit an inmate condemned for the slaying of a Houston man more than 12 years ago.