Desmond Tutu Honored as a Global Reference for Hope
South African Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Prize, Desmond Tutu, was honored today by the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela's widow, Graça Machel, as a global reference of hope. "There cannot be a just world if those who believe in peace and justice cannot continue to speak the truth before power," said Piyushi Kotecha, CEO of the Desmond Tutu & Leah Tutu Foundation, at the opening of a videoconference that marked the 90th anniversary of the South African anti-apartheid activist. The conference, under the theme 'Truth and power, there is no future without justice' this year, culminated a week of events in South Africa designed to mark 90 years of the Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town. In this sense, the widow of Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, urged today's society to "change its behavior, if you want to eradicate the violence that women and children are targeted." "We are a society at war with itself", stressed Graça Machel, calling f...