All posts tagged "Bishop Desmond Tutu"

In a statement of solidarity with LGBT people around the world, South Africa's iconic Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in Cape Town on Friday that he would choose to go to Hell rather than a Heaven ruled over by a homophobic God. According to Huffington Post, Tutu was very direct in his support of LGBTs, making the statements to mark the kickoff of a new United Nations international LGBT rights program.

While Burmese opposition leader Aung Sun Sui Kay and South African Bishop Desmond Tutu addressed the monied crowd this morning at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, a younger generation of dissidents across town hailed the rise of social media and called upon the United Nations and its member states to do more than pay lip service to human rights.

The northeast African country of Somalia has been one of the world's most notorious failed states for more than two decades. Its current government has been pushed out of most of the country's territory and now controls a fraction of the capital city, and high-seas piracy off the country's coast has been the scourge of shipping companies for years.