Sep 18, 2017
José Ramos-Horta, Freedom Fighter and Democracy Builder, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate In 1975 Indonesia invaded East Timor, rounded up their political leaders and executed them on the docks of the capital. They then began a systematic extermination of the Timorese...
Sep 18, 2017
The son of a tribal chief, Nelson Mandela began his opposition to South Africa’s government policies, which relegated blacks to non-voting, second-class citizens in a segregated society, while attending college. He went on to become a lawyer and joined the outlawed...
Sep 18, 2017
After losing her mother and brother to Guatemalan death squads in the late 1970s, Rigoberta Menchu Tum followed in her father’s footsteps to become a human rights activist and leader in her country. A Mayan Indian, she publicly protested human rights abuses against...
Sep 18, 2017
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Laueate Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. As a young boy growing up in a village in Tibet, he was formally recognized by Tibetan Buddhist elders as the reincarnated Dalai...
Sep 18, 2017
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Anti-Apartheid Hero, Voice of Conscience, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Tutu was one of the two South African figures widely credited with bringing about the fall of South Africa’s oppressive Apartheid regime. The first...
