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, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.

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.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.