You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.

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

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

Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to equip people with the tools they need to live lives of security and dignity. On this International Human Rights Day, let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.