If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role.

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.

Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came about because of the severity of the country's problems and the resulting high proportion of women in the parliament and among professional caregivers, which had a positive effect on policy.

I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or five books beside my bed at night. I particularly enjoy reading about people who have gone through a personal growth.