I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

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

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

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

Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human rights. Because the United States has changed its standards it is undermining civil liberties elsewhere.