Music awakens and inspires the inex- haustible creativity of man. It creates mo- ments of happiness, brings people togeth- er, and enables them to better cope with life. Across...
Angolan rapper Luaty Beirão, also known as Ikonoklasta. (Facebook / Luaty Beirão) On Monday, 17 Angolan activists received sentences ranging from two to...
In this statement, written right before the postponement of the January 24th presidential “run-off” election, 68 grassroots organizations in Haiti issue an urgent call...
Port-au-Prince and other Haitian cities are today the stage of the largest popular uprising in decades of the suffering Haitian nation. Tens of thousands...
Photo courtesy Waging NonviolenceThe Chipko movement (which means “to cling”) started in the 1970s when a group ofpeasant women in Northern India threw their...
Haiti’s next election is less than two weeks away. Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance before cheering multitudes on...
Nelson Mandela Foundation This is an edited transcript of economist Professor Thomas Piketty's address to the 13th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, which took...
Mr. Vice-President, Mr. Speaker, Honorable Members of Congress, Dear Friends, I am most grateful for your invitation to address this Joint Session of...