Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

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

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

The report produced by my commission, the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, in 2012 showed the corrosive impact of money in US politics, for example, which undermines the legitimacy of the democratic system in citizens' eyes. Such perceptions partly explain the rise of a phenomenon like the success of Donald Trump.

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.