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Barack Obama calls for Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed

Barack Obama called on the Burma regime to free Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a message sending best wishes for her 65th birthday.

The US president hailed the Burmese opposition leader’s “determination, courage, and personal sacrifice in working for human rights and democratic change” as she marks her birthday Saturday under house [...]

Choose Peace—End the Seige on Gaza

Two months have passed since Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza, with very tragic results—including nine deaths and 40 injuries. Yet, as this week’s events quietly reveal, it seems Israel will get away with its blatant disrespect for international law and not be held accountable for this disaster.
It was reported on Monday [...]

Dalai Lama to visit Japan

Dharamsala, June 12 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama will leave here for a week-long visit to Japan. The Tibetan leader is scheduled to visit several Buddhist temples and give religious sermons starting June 20.
The 1989 Nobel peace laureate has been invited by Zenkoji temple, a 7th century Buddhist temple in Nagano city, to deliver [...]

Buddhist Leader Pushes for Nuclear Abolition Treaty

IDN Special
IDN-InDepth NewsInterview of Daisaku Ikeda
BERLIN/TOKYO (IDN) – An eminent Buddhist thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has called for an early start of negotiations for a global treaty to abolish nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction, to coincide — ideally — with the 70th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
An international [...]

Former President Clinton asks nations to keep funding AIDS programs

CNN) –July 20, 2010
With the promise of coming AIDS vaccines, former President Bill Clinton urged the world’s nations Monday not to give up on funding to prevent a calamity.
Overall support for global AIDS efforts from donor nations flattened in the midst of last year’s global economic crisis, according to a recent analysis of 2009 funding [...]

Walter Veltroni, Co-President of the Summit

Dear friends,
A few months ago, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tenth edition of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was held in Berlin.
That occasion, attended by President Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, De Klerk, Yunus, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and many other men and women who have [...]

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