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A gathering of elders takes on AIDS, TB, climate change and more. JOHANNESBURG, July 18, 2007 — -- The Elders, a new alliance made up of an elite group of senior statesmen dedicated to solving ...

Leaders around the world are mourning the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the human rights crusader who died in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sunday at the age of 90. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tutu ...

JUBA, South Sudan, July 9 (UNHCR) - Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finnish president, visited Sudanese refugees this weekend in South Sudan's Upper ...

Desmond Tutu is a well-known South African activist, whose efforts to solve the issue of apartheid, during 1980s, fetched him worldwide fame. Born in 1931, in Klerksdorp, Tutu chose teaching as his ...

Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu's compassion and sense of humor, as well as his commitment to justice and processes of peace, were among the many reasons he was an icon, said Bishop Kevin Dowling of ...

In India, nearly half of all girls are married before they turn the legal age of 18. In the state of Bihar, the statistics are even grimmer: 69% of girls are wedded before they’re 18 and 48% before ...

1954-1957 - Teaches school. He resigns in protest of government restrictions on education for black children. 1961 - Is ordained an Anglican priest. 1975 - Becomes the first black appointed Anglican ...

The Elders, a group of leading human rights advocates, is demanding that longtime Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe step down, calling the African nation's election process illegitimate. Mugabe was ...