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...dramatic scene of anger and hatred last week involved Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Tutu and a fellow Anglican bishop had gone to Duduza, a black township 30 miles east of Johannesburg, to officiate at the funerals of four young men who had accidentally blown themselves up with explosives. As the two churchmen left the cemetery after the burial, they were confronted by a mob attempting to kill a black man whom they suspected of being a police spy. The crowd had seized him, set his car afire and was trying to hurl him into...
...million nets this year, making Kenya one of the very few African countries that will achieve the Abuja target (agreed by African heads of state in 2000) of providing a bed net for at least 60% of pregnant women and children under 5 by the end of 2005. Dr Desmond Chavasse Global Director of Malaria Control Population Services International Nairobi Sachs missed one important issue: the rights of women trying to survive in repressive patriarchal societies. As long as women in aids-infected areas are forced to have sex with philandering husbands and have no birth control, they will have...
Previous recipients of the award include more political figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and novelist Elie Wiesel. Although an actor like Stone seems unlikely company for such dignitaries, Harvard Foundation Director Dr. S. Allen Counter called Stone “the embodiment of humanitarianism,” referring to her 10 years of AIDS advocacy work as the campaign chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR...
...Jenée Desmond-Harris, an HLS student who co-chaired the conference with F. Danielle Lewis and Tara L. Curtis said she invited Giovanni to speak at yesterday’s “inspirational brunch” even though she is not a lawyer because “she would deliver an inspiring message that would encourage students to think about their social responsiblity in keeping with the theme of our conference...
...addition, Nobel Prize Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu and Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., among others, have joined the Unite Against AIDS Summit Advisory Board...