Millions still live poor and isolated lives. Millions more have found their lives disrupted, even destroyed, by global economic forces they do not understand and cannot control, |
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. |
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. |
Most of all, it must generate new momentum towards developing the economies and societies of poor countries, and transforming the lives of poor people, |
Most people are much more directly threatened by such things as extreme poverty, hunger, disease, environmental disasters, or by low-tech violence, when order breaks down in their country or civil war breaks out, |
Mr. de Soto's contacts with regional leaders, while not as complete as would have been desirable, nevertheless confirmed my concern that the new situation which had emerged following the developments of May, compounding as it does the longstanding causes of friction between India and Pakistan, may have serious implications for peace and security in the region and beyond, |
Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree. |
must set clear objectives and develop a strategy to achieve them. |
My concern is that, if it were adopted, it could set precedents that result in a proliferation of the unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without credible justification. |
My people there are not complaining about the coordination. |
National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence. |
Nearly 25 years into the pandemic, help is reaching less than 10 percent of the children affected by HIV/AIDS, leaving too many children to grow up alone, grow up too fast or not grow up at all, |
nearly half of them will have to survive on $2 a day or less. |
necessary is to manage the process, manage it fairly and equitably in the interest of all, in the interest of the countries of origin, transit country and the recipient country and above all respect the rights of the migrant or those on the move. |
New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. |