If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.