Each month Media Voices for Children presents interviews with leading global advocates for the human rights of children.
Interview with Dr. Sheryl Brissett-Chapman
Executive Director of the National Center for Children and Families Dr. Sheryl Brissett-Chapman speaks about the particular impact of homelessness on children, and how the community can support homeless parents in their efforts to shelter and nurture their children.
Interviewer: Georgia Morris
Interview with Peter Singer
Len Morris interviewed philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer in July 2007. Singer discusses poverty and the moral obligations of wealthy countries.
This interview was recorded in 2007. For an updated account of Peter Singer’s views on world poverty, we recommend his recent book, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. You may also visit the related website, www.thelifeyoucansave.com
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Interview
Bishop Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. His father was a teacher, and he himself was educated at Johannesburg Bantu High School. After leaving school he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and in 1954 he graduated from the University of South Africa.
From 1967 to 1972 he taught theology in South Africa before returning to England for three years as the assistant director of a theological institute in London. In 1975 he was appointed Dean of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg, the first black to hold that position. From 1976 to 1978 he was Bishop of Lesotho, and in 1978 became the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.
Tutu is an honorary doctor of a number of leading universities in the USA, Britain and Germany.
