news: Jimmy Carter tells Nobel meeting to oppose unnecessary wars
Former President Jimmy Carter opened the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Chicago Monday with a challenge to young people to stand up against unnecessary wars and hold the U.S. government accountable for making preemptive strikes. “For the last 60 years, our country has been almost constantly at war....
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causes: A United Voice for Human Rights
TheCommunity.com is launching a three year campaign to raise awareness on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — the UDHR. Drafted in 1948 and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, the UDHR outlines 30 fundamental human rights. It says that these rights form the very foundation of freedom, justice...
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news: Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Europe
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is planning to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years, officials say. The Norwegian foreign ministry said she was expected to visit Norway in June. A spokesman from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party also told the BBC that she would visit...
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greatest hits: Desmond Tutu: Arizona: The Wrong Answer
In April, 2010, the State of Arizona passed a law requiring that local police determine the immigration status of individuals they suspect of being in the country illegally, a mandate that people carry documents that prove they have a legal right to be in the United States, and a provision...
(continue)news: Shirin Ebadi on Iran and sanctions
Almost a decade ago, Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human-rights lawyer, became the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But the government in Tehran has never taken kindly to her criticism of the regime, especially in regard to women’s rights. In the aftermath of the Islamic Republic’s highly...
(continue)Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011
On September 25, 2011, the world received the sad news that Wangari Maathai had passed away, “after a prolonged and bravely borne struggle with cancer”. We join her family, her countrymen, and the millions she inspired in mourning her loss. Her spirit will live on in all of us.
(continue)Journey home for Nelson Mandela
Former president Nelson Mandela, accompanied by his wife Graca Machel, traveled home to Qunu in the Eastern Cape in an unscheduled visit with his extensive medical team. Sources close to the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon said he had told his family: “I want to go home.” Staff at Mthatha Airport in...
(continue)Don’t give up, Suu Kyi tells HK crowd
Burmese freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi has told activists in Hong Kong and the mainland to remember their aims and not to give up. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was speaking via live video conferencing in her “first dialogue with an Asian university” since her release from house arrest...
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