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

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

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

Christian fundamentalists seek to roll back women's right to choose in the United States, and then also insist that money against Aids must not go to organisations that help people obtain their reproductive rights. These are extremely worrying trends.

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.

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

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