Poor is poor, in any language.

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones – to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

There’s a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they’re using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.

If we took away barriers to women’s leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster.

Today’s human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow’s conflicts.

The concept of using forced labor as a punishment is against the accepted international human rights principles embodied in many international instruments,

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.