Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family – striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women’s Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.
Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world.
No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other’s security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears.
Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn’t know what he is capable of until he is asked.
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.
You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.
If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.
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.