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U2's Bono To Receive Human Rights Award Monday
(11/18/02, 12 p.m. ET) -- U2 frontman Bono will be honored Monday (November 18) in New York City by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Bono will receive the human rights organization's Humanitarian Laureate Award "for his keen sense of social justice and his tireless efforts on behalf of the underprivileged and disenfranchised of the world" at a dinner at Manhattan's Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Much of Bono's work has been with the Jubilee 2000 organization, which focuses on convincing industrialized nations to forgive its Third World debts in order to free up money to help those countries further develop. Bono tells LAUNCH that, awards aside, the struggle continues.
"I have a feeling that the next step is realizing that debt cancellation is only the door through to really dealing with the responsibility the developed countries have for the state of the developing nations. Because, you know, we raped them for 200 years, and we sowed the seeds of their despair, and we will reap conflict and disease. And, and the biggest threat to our own prosperity and peace on the planet is that."
Bono and U2 are in the midst of planning for a new studio album, and the group recently released a new compilation, The Best Of 1990-2000.
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
U2's Bono To Receive Human Rights Award Monday
(11/18/02, 12 p.m. ET) -- U2 frontman Bono will be honored Monday (November 18) in New York City by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Bono will receive the human rights organization's Humanitarian Laureate Award "for his keen sense of social justice and his tireless efforts on behalf of the underprivileged and disenfranchised of the world" at a dinner at Manhattan's Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Much of Bono's work has been with the Jubilee 2000 organization, which focuses on convincing industrialized nations to forgive its Third World debts in order to free up money to help those countries further develop. Bono tells LAUNCH that, awards aside, the struggle continues.
"I have a feeling that the next step is realizing that debt cancellation is only the door through to really dealing with the responsibility the developed countries have for the state of the developing nations. Because, you know, we raped them for 200 years, and we sowed the seeds of their despair, and we will reap conflict and disease. And, and the biggest threat to our own prosperity and peace on the planet is that."
Bono and U2 are in the midst of planning for a new studio album, and the group recently released a new compilation, The Best Of 1990-2000.
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
