Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens.

The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.