Likewise, Security Council reform has, for the moment, eluded us, even though everyone broadly agrees that it is long overdue, |
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. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... 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. |
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. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... 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. |
Lots of consultations are going on in various capitals. And everyone concerned, including the Americans, have made it clear they would prefer a diplomatic solution, ... Let us give it time. Let us see what happens. |
made it quite clear that the United Nations cannot condone the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq. |
Malaria can be beaten, the means exist. Together we can change the world and prolong the vast movement of solidarity reflected in this evening's concert, |
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. |
Many are living in sub-human conditions and they fear for their future, |
Many challenges remain in combating impunity, particularly due to the limited capacity of civilian and military judicial authorities to carry out independent and thorough investigations and to provide protection to victims and witnesses, |
Many governments, as well as representatives of civil society around the world, have urged her to reconsider, |
Massive and systematic violations of human rights -- wherever they make take place -- should not be allowed to stand, |
Men can make a particular difference -- by being more caring, by taking fewer risks and by facing the issue of AIDS head-on. |
Mexico has made some strides (on human rights) ... but there is still some way to go, |
Millions of children and adults are becoming infected, falling ill and dying without the barest essentials in medical treatment, counseling or social support, |
Millions of children and young people are already affected by the pandemic - including those infected through the most heart-reading from of transmission, mother to child, |