These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.