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Ban Ki-moon

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
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Hunger Want World
To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure.
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Land Need Technology
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Exercise Growth Justice
Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.
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Borders Environmental Security
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
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, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
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Fighting People Water
Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family
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Expression Fabric Safety
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
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Disease Poverty Step
I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.
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Community Leader Risk
Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.
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Energy Growth World
The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.
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Country Leader People
I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.
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Leader Speaks Out Want
You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.
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Citizen Tomorrow Vision
Gender equality and women’s empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Empowerment Example Priorities
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
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Children Eye Our Generation

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