World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners - governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike - to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission.

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Obama saying Gaddafi must go. Putting it upfront like that... it's not very helpful.

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?

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

There are lots of questions which have to be answered.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.