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Save the Children's campaign to cut drastically the numbers of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday received a global boost today with backing from 'The Elders', the group of world-renowned global figures brought together last year by Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel to tackle global crises.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said: "There is nothing more precious than the life of a child. This is where we find hope for the future. I encourage people around the world to make their voices heard and back this campaign."
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Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has asked the South Africans to promote social values to save their country from self-destruction. Archbishop Tutu, who joined the new initiative - Heartliness - initiated by the mass media, said "as a nation we need values".
"The long-term impact of not having a value-based society is that South Africans will be damned. If we do not have the right values of truth, honesty, love and compassion, then we are for the birds. Our nation will self-destruct," he said.
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"The people who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize have earned the right to act, at certain times, as representatives of the world's conscience. This was never more true than in the statement on Myanmar issued last week by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and signed by eight of his fellow Nobel laureates.
"After the ruling military junta shot and beat saffron-robed Buddhist monks and other citizens who were peacefully demonstrating for democracy last fall, most governments only dithered. The United Nations sent a special envoy to Myanmar to beg the despotic generals for some gesture of reconciliation with a population that despises them..."
The International Herald Tribune
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A group of Nobel laureates has called for an arms embargo against Myanmar, dismissing elections planned for 2010 as flawed if pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from standing.
A group of seven laureates, including Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and South Africa's anti-apartheid cleric Desmond Tutu, said the junta should face sanctions for its crackdown on Buddhist monks last September rather than plaudits for its recent announcement of an election timetable.
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In a letter emblazoned on the front page of Britain's Independent newspaper more than 80 eminent people followed the lead of director Steven Spielberg and voiced their protest at the bloodshed in the arid region of Sudan.
"As the primary economic, military and political partner of the government of Sudan, and as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China has both the opportunity and the responsibility to contribute to a just peace in Darfur.
"Ongoing failure to rise to this responsibility amounts, in our view, to support for a government that continues to carry out atrocities against its own people," the letter said.
Signatories included eight Nobel Peace Prize winners such as archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Ireland's Betty Williams, Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo of East Timor and Elie Wiesel of the United States.
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An article by Desmond Tutu in the International Herald Tribune about the responsibility of nations to prevent genocide and protect the citizenry.
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Whenever I am asked if I am optimistic about an end to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, I say that I am not. Optimism requires clear signs that things are changing - meaningful words and unambiguous actions that point to real progress. I do not yet hear enough meaningful words, nor do I yet see enough unambiguous deeds to justify optimism. However, that does not mean I am without hope. I am a Christian. I am constrained by my faith to hope against hope, placing my trust in things as yet unseen. Hope persists in the face of evidence to the contrary, undeterred by setbacks and disappointment. Hoping against hope, then, I do believe that a resolution will be found. It will not be perfect, but it can be just; and if it is just, it will usher in a future of peace.
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