Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image