Commentaries by Desmond Tutu

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  Apr. 24, 2013

  Vaccination’s Lifetime of Blessings

  CAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream…

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  Jun. 13, 2012

  The Fire in the Monastery

  PRAGUE – The grim spectacle of young monks, nuns, and lay people setting themselves on fire to protest conditions in their homeland is a sta…

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  Feb. 3, 2012

  Havel Lives

  PRAGUE – The death of Václav Havel, the former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, has been marked with mourning around the …

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  Nov. 30, 2011

  Climate Justice

  DURBAN – Before the Copenhagen climate-change summit two years ago, the two of us sat together in Cape Town to listen to five African farmer…

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  Nov. 7, 2011

  The Devil in the Tar Sands

  CAPE TOWN – On Sunday, November 6, thousands of people encircled the White House as part of the ongoing effort to press US President Barack …

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  Aug. 31, 2011

  Ukraine Loses Its Way

  PRAGUE – Since the election of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010, Ukraine has experienced a significant and alarming deterioration in its …

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  Jun. 29, 2011

  Ending Nuclear Evil

  CAPE TOWN – Eliminating nuclear weapons is the democratic wish of the world’s people. Yet no nuclear-armed country currently appears to be p…

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  Mar. 21, 2011

  Solidarity with Japan

  PRAGUE – The shattering earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 have wrought devastating physical damage – aggravated by the th…

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  May 26, 2010

  Killing Justice in Russia

  PRAGUE – The death of Eduard Chuvashov, a judge killed in cold blood on April 12 in Moscow, is another in a long and growing list of murders…

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  Jan. 13, 2010

  Sudan between Peril and Hope

  ALGIERS – The future of Sudan hangs in the balance. National elections are due in April. A referendum on the future status of the south of t…