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Co-Founders of PeacePlayers International (PPI), Brendan and Sean Tuohey, were presented with the prestigious Laureus Sport for Good Award, which honors individuals who make a contribution to society through sport, at the ninth annual Laureus World Sports Awards in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 18, 2008. Past winners of this award include Eunice Kennedy Shriver,…

By Satyagraha Reporters This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the march organized by women workers against the gross conditions of work that they faced. Today a hundred years later we look at the numerous celebrations of the courageous demonstration of the women workers, and we ask what has changed?  There are those who believe…

Satyagraha Reporter In South Africa National Water Week is commemorated during 17-22 March. The theme for National Water Week 2008 is “Water: sustaining lives, enabling growth.” Solvista Secondary School hosted a public forum debate at the AM Moola Spes Nova Hall in Phoenix on March 12. The event was held in partnership with Umgeni Water,…

Leaders of different faiths in Religions for Peace joined together in March to decry the death of Most Rev. Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop. He was kidnapped after he left mass in Mosul, Iraq, on 29 February. HRH Prince el Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, President Emeritus of Religions for Peace, who issued…

Almost all the world’s population lacks proper sanitation. Inadequate sanitation is a major contributing factor to the cause of diseases in developing countries such as India. Gandhi once said “Sanitation is more important than political independence. Making every village clean and healthy is central to all development efforts.” India’s first nationwide programme to combat the…

Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPW) held a conference in Jaipur, India during March 6-10. The four-day conference brought together women from conflict zones around the world and top female spiritual leaders. It was aimed at forging formal ties among Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and animist women with the goal of…

The month of March has dual importance in that we observe human rights day, and we observe the International women’s day. In a sense the two are interlinked and reinforces the notion that women’s rights are human rights or human rights are essentially also women’s rights. Often in discussing these issues separately and it is…

Satyagraha Reporters The final round of the annual Mahatma Gandhi Speech and Essay Contest was held on 7 March 2008 at the Durban University of Technology (DUT). The preliminary rounds of the speech contest were hosted at schools across the province. The finals brought together 12 speech contest finalists from the preliminary rounds and 10…