Desmond Tutu

Description

“Desmond Tutu was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. Since his successful opossition to the demise of apartheid he has been active in the defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.”