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.

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

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

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

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

I have often said that we have two UNs; the UN that is a Secretariat, that implements the mandates handed over to it by the General Assembly and the Security Council, and the UN that is the member states who sit in the Council, take the decisions, hand over the mandates, or take decisions in the General Assembly.