Was Annie Lennox given award by Nobel Peace Laureates?
22 Nobel Peace Laureates this week honoured musician Annie Lennox with the ‘Women of Peace’ award for her SING campaign to stop HIV/AIDS. Lennox convinced 23 of the “world’s most acclaimed female vocalists” to record their voices for the SING anthem, which has raised about $2 million (almost R15 million) since 2003. She says she started the campaign after visiting South Africa to perform in the first of Nelson Mandela’s 46664 HIV campaign concerts. I was at that concert and her rendition of ‘Here Comes the Rain Again’ was spellbinding. Lennox says on her website that during that trip she “witnessed the lack of resources available to help the world’s largest population living with the devastating disease”. SING has partnered with the Treatment Action Campaign to promote HIV/AIDS treatment, testing, education, and prevention programmes. Lennox explains why the campaign is called SING: “The stigma of HIV is so high that people are afraid to talk openly about the issue, or their status. So
22 Nobel Peace Laureates this week honored musician Annie Lennox with the ‘Women of Peace’ award for her SING campaign to stop HIV/AIDS. … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_1_0_t&usg=AFQjCNGmdYrCjBvUxmR8Y5aBHuobg0O2zw&sig2=Htb7rzuEvw-D3_zYncXGqA&cid=1469139775&ei=_rv-SvCKDKC08gSe6sz4Ag&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.timeslive.co.
