Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.