When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice to question the privileges.

The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .

Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

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

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.