Occupation: Diplomat Birth: April 8, 1938
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways o….
To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our….
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race..
Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources..
If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to ….
To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys..
The interesting thing is, everybody focuses on the global warming as an environmental issue, as something outside our daily lives. But actually the i….
On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace..
You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past..
One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king..
You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to shar….
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war..
These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us..
Both parties accept this vision. But we can reach it only if we move rapidly and in parallel on all fronts. The so-called 'sequential' approach has f….
Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, th….
Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives..
One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war in Iraq. That really was very ….
Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world.
We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd don….
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed w….
Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ….