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.

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.