In an era of globalisation, AIESEC’s programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.
You are never too young to lead.
Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.
You have to wake up every day ready to start again.
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract – sustainable development – and turn it into a reality for all the world’s people.
We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.
The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.
Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth’s fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.
Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.
Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform.
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
To educate girls is to reduce poverty.
The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.
Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.