Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

People are optimistic about the future.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.