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Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.

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Kofi Annan
Age: 80 †
Born: 1938
Born: April 8
Died: 2018
Died: August 18
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Kofi Atta Annan
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Kofi A. Annan
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The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow through their dreams in six months time, to play an effective role in the future.
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The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.
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In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.
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The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the victim mode . . . .
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Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
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In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
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If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
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I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
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...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.
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We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough job... It can perhaps be done if you stand united and work with me in putting sustained pressure on the protagonists or the parties to come together and seek a political settlement.
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform
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Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history
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Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they are left on society's margins, all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure that all young people have every opportunity to participate fully in the lives of their societies.
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... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one lesson Western citizens can learn from those countries: treasure what you have. Use your rights and freedoms to effect the change you want.
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Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.
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Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.
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