I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human rights - that includes development experts and economists who are very keen to implement the UN Millennium Development Goals. They've told me quite frankly, that they don't know exactly what a human rights approach is.

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

When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very software that enables the state to censor its own people, that is not acceptable. We need to engage with such companies to make their responsibilities clear.

I agree with those who argue that it is possible to distil from the religions of the world their common values and relevance. As far as I'm concerned I am involved in a complementary process with people who have a moral or spiritual commitment to human rights.

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

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

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.