The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. 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.

All countries are particular and no models are perfect.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.