You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had played on that, ….

Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goa….

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. F….

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict..

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have….

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat..

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential..

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge.

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever..

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity i….

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, a….

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it..

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the wa….

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of dev….

We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when….

We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do n….

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it..

There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable..

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mi….

The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its members, and especially t….

The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do….