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Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.
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Borders Environmental Security
Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women – and that a woman’s place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.
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Home Real School
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
It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
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Disease Poverty Step
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
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
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
We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
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Grandchildren Hands Suffering
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
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Government Leader Political
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.
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Challenges Climate Doe
With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
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Book Determination Girl
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
Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.
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Disarmament Nuclear Path World
Every literate woman is a victory over poverty
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Literate Poverty Victory
SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN’S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.
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Equal Participation Perspective

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