When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life..

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council..

The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was ch….

Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. We are not of the East or the West, he….

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council..

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presenc….

Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with ….

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social jus….

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?.

Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar stru….

Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility….

There was a time, with the Berlin Wall down, that [it looked as if] the UN finally could do what it was set up to do, the rivalry between the two cam….

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have….

I think the world has moved on..

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic..

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians..

You need to be careful not to over-reach and also assess the capacity you have to work with..

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition..

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory..

Obama saying Gaddafi must go. Putting it upfront like that... it's not very helpful..

The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal..