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Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

Ban Ki-moon

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
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Book Determination Girl
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
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
Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin
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Climate Inspiring Sides Two
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
World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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Goal Military Represent World
My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.
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Economics Player Thinking
Society’s dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
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Fossils Fuel 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
Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.
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Achieve Equal Peaceful
Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.
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Borders Environmental Security
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
Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.
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Decision Effort People
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
Climate change…is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.
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Challenges Climate Faces
I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
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Country Destroy Historical Holocaust

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