Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.

On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.

The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.