Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .

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

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

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

...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.