To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their frustrations with their governments' inability to solve pressing problems.

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

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.

There are lots of questions which have to be answered.

If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.