More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps.