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?

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

To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.

The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its members, and especially the Permanent 5 (P5), have a special responsibility for international peace and security.