Desmond Tutu

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s development is being slowed by discriminatory practices against women such as child marriage, which stifle their potential to contribute to growth, South African peace campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu said. “India is doing fantastically. I mean they are complaining about seven percent GDP growth. Imagine if you then enlisted the participation of 50 percent of the population. Women. Imagine what it would be,” Tutu told Reuters late Wednesday. “I think that...Read Full Story

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DAVOS, Switzerland — After the uprisings in the Arab world, South Africa’s veteran Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu said Wednesday it was now time for women to have their revolution and banish men to the margins. Speaking at a gathering of the world’s political and financial elite in Davos, the vast majority of them men, Tutu said women had long been locked out of policy-making — and the world had paid the price. “Let us realign forces, let us ensure that women have a significant part in the...Read Full Story

BBC News After apartheid, Tutu aims at 'huge enemy' climate change AFP DURBAN — Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu on Sunday branded climate change a "huge, huge enemy" that threatened the common home of humanity, imperilling rich and poor alike. At a rally on the eve of the 12-day UN climate talks in Durban, ... Is a global agreement the only way to tackle climate change? The Guardian At South Africa climate meet, India fights for right to grow Times of India Canada to offer millions in...Read Full Story

Desmond Tutu began his retirement Thursday on board a cruise ship in Cape Town , celebrating a career that earned a Nobel Peace Prize for battling apartheid and gave voice to South Africa's conscience. Tutu announced in July that he would step down from public life on his 79th birthday, which he will ring in Thursday with his wife Leah on the 180-metre (590-foot) cruise ship carrying them on a five-month voyage around the globe. "He's serious about quieting down," Tutu's spokesman Dan Vaughan...Read Full Story

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Desmond Tutu turns 79 today, Oct. 7, and he says this is it: At long last, he’s retiring from public life. The South African archbishop-emeritus played a critical role during a period of dramatic change in South Africa in recent decades, and he is rightly revered world wide. A man with the dynamic energy that Tutu displays surely has rubbed some people the wrong way over the years and picked up some detractors who regard his public persona as too good to be true. Sure, he’s a Nobel Peace...Read Full Story

JOHANNESBURG ( Reuters ) - South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who used his church pulpit as a platform to help bring down apartheid, officially retired from public duties Thursday. Tutu, whose last major appearances came this summer when South Africa hosted the soccer World Cup , said shortly after he would step out of the spotlight to spend more time at home with his family. U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement: "For decades he has been a moral titan, a voice...Read Full Story

Like most clergy who’s picked up and frantically waved the gay rainbow banner for perverse theology, the former South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu seems to have become particularly engrossed in trying way too hard to make a wrong be a right. Tutu is one of the gay movement’s heroes because he doesn’t adhere to the bible, but to the broad social gospel which has no standards, just “love”. And of course following God’s Word would mean that you would have to say that not all sexual...Read Full Story

Archbishop Desmond Tutu PARIS, Apr 26, 2010 / FW/ — A Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu is well known for his humanitarianism and his fight against apartheid, AIDS and poverty. He also founded the Desmond Tutu Peace Center (DTPC), a non-profit organization that helps resolve conflicts and restore social justice. To continue his quest for peace, social responsibility and inspire leaders to be committed to the people they serve, Archbishop Desmond Tutu collaborated with Lutz...Read Full Story