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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

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Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it
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Earth Force Island
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
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Death Execution Penalty Suffering
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
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Ambitious Goal Saving
Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries … Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.
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Country Effort Men
Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
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Challenges Climate Limited Resources
A deal must include an equitable global governance structure. All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed.
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Country Global Warming Voice
We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
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Challenges Opportunity Progress
Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.
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Community Development Poverty
I have been urging the leaders to listen to the aspirations and challenges of their own people, and engage in dialogue and take very bold measures. Normally, to their regret, these measures and bold reforms come too late, too little.
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Leader People Regret
Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women’s empowerment – these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
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Empowerment Issues Water
We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
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Development Generations Needs
Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.
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Issues Needs Water
I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us – men and boys – refuse to tolerate it.
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Boys Girl Powerful
With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
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Book Determination Girl
Climate change…is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.
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Challenges Climate Faces
I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.
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Fundamentals Principles Rights

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

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