Kofi Annan Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

  Kofi Annan

  Religious, Effort, Understanding

  "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and by UN agencies". www.un.org. September 16, 2004.

• Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first
  international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the
  adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the
  first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite
  the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent
  practice, it is still widely prevalent in all
  its insidious forms, old and new.

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  Real, Rights, Law

• Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.

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  Children, Men, Rights

• For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts.

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  Powerful, Rights, Luxury

• It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

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  Government, People, Goal

• All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

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  Effort, Environmental, Degradation

  "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all". Report for the United Nations sixtieth anniversary summit, 2005.

• The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Media, Effort, Shy

• This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

  Kofi Annan

  Effort, Climate, World

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