greatest hits:Desmond Tutu on Peace and Human Rights
In a conversation with Mary Wald, Chairman of the thecommunity.com, anti-Apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu discusses the relationship between human rights and peace. Full interview coming soon.
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1980 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine human rights activist
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was a teacher and architect in Argentina noted for leading protests against the “Free Trade Area of the Americas” which could wipe out small manufacturers in developing countries,...
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Liu Xiaobo: 20 years of activism
In his time Liu Xiaobo has been a political activist, author, university professor and an annoyance to the Chinese Communist Party. He has now been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, despite fierce...
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Chinese press angry over dissident’s Nobel Peace Prize
China’s official news media has aired its anger over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo on 8 October, with editorials describing Liu as a “criminal” and accusing the...
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Wife Detained After Visiting Nobel Winner
The wife of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, was allowed to meet with her husband on Sunday at the prison in northeastern China where he is serving an 11-year sentence, but she was...
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China tightens control of Tibetan monasteries, blames “separatists”
China plans to tighten control over Tibetan Buddhist monasteries to reduce the influence of the exiled Dalai Lama and other ‘internal and external separatist forces,’ according to a government notice...
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Chinese veteran politicians call for reform
A group of 23 Communist Party elders in China has written a letter calling for an end to the country’s restrictions on freedom of speech. The letter says freedom of expression is promised in the...
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photos: Desmond Tutu photo shoot
On March 12, Archbishop Desmond Tutu shot a video spot for thecommunity.com’s upcoming human rights campaign. The video will be released in late fall. Come with us to Kalamazoo, Michigan to spend an...
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photos: The Dalai Lama PSA shoot
On May 18 thecommunity.com met up with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for a video shoot for thecommunity.com’s upcoming human rights campaign. The video will be released in late fall...
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