General Assembly

UN FOCUS

Making sure the UN’s Charter is respected

QUOTES

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Jimmy Carter Former US President

“A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.”

Arundhati Roy, Indian author

“You cannot kill the truth. You cannot kill justice. You cannot kill what we are fighting for.”

Jean Dominique, Haitian democracy activist

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights activist

Nelson Mandela South African civil rights activist