Lawrence Martin: Stephen Lewis, a man of moral vision

Lawrence Martin/The Globe and Mail: Mr. Lewis became a shaper of United Nations policy on Africa, the land he had fallen in love with when, after dropping out of law school twice, he journeyed there to teach English. He became the special envoy on HIV/AIDS for that continent, a galvanizing force in drawing attention to that calamity. For the genocide in Rwanda, he had sounded the alarms. No one spoke with greater moral clarity on the dispossessed, and in the years that followed on issues like gender equality, income inequality and environmental degradation…