If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.

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.

We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that to some extent they are educating their parents. They are tackling issues of waste disposal and so on. The schools help, because they put a lot of stress on environmental awareness.

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

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.