Author: Kofi Annan

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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

- Kofi Annan

Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.

Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.

- Kofi Annan

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

- Kofi Annan

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

- Kofi Annan

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

- Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

- Kofi Annan

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

- Kofi Annan

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

- Kofi Annan

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

- Kofi Annan

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