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  • 20 Jul 2007
    Tutu to join group of peacemaking global 'elders'

    Nobel Peace Laureate and ex-Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to chair a global group of “elders” who will visit some of the world’s conflict zones to offer experience, wisdom, and advice on moving toward non-violent solutions.

  • 23 Jun 2007
    Archbishop backs United Nations human rights council

    Despite misgivings from all sides about the United Nation's Human Rights Council, Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says the body that is supposed to be an international watchdog should gain in credibility.

  • 22 Jun 2007
    Tutu coming to St Alban's to remember victim of oppression

    Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu comes to St Alban's on Saturday, to lead the city's Annual Pilgrimage in remembrance of the killing of its patron saint. He will focus on the challenges of following Christ today.

  • 5 Jun 2007
    Desmond Tutu issues Arctic plea on climate change

    Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for urgent action against the threat of global warming. He was speaking in Tromsø, the largest Nordic city north of the Arctic Circle. African and Pacific leaders have backed his plea.

  • 23 Apr 2007
    Desmond Tutu calls on Taiwan to face its painful past

    On a visit last week, he former South African archbishop has urged the Taiwanese people to heal the wounds caused by a 1947 uprising in which thousands were massacred.

  • 19 Mar 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.

  • 16 Feb 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.

  • 30 Jan 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.

  • 24 Jan 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.

  • 22 Jan 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.