Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation - their image - is at stake.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

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

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'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately afterwards, but then some of those women who were involved in the movement got involved in representative positions and perhaps some of them got a bit distanced from the grassroots issues. But also the women's movement itself seemed to say, "No, we've got our own government, our own parties in power" and they sat back.

The international human rights framework is a vital component and engine for promoting global values. Governments have signed up to this international legal framework and we should hold them accountable, in all circumstances from environmental or labour standards, to trade talks, arms control and security issues as well as other international legal codes.