Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 08. April 1938 |
Geburtsort | Kumasi |
Todesort | Bern |
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Beschreibung | Kofi Atta Annan (/ˈkoʊfi ˈʌnʌn/; 8. April 1938 - 18. August 2018) war ein ghanaischer Diplomat, der von 1997 bis 2006 als siebter Generalsekretär der Vereinten Nationen fungierte. Annan und die Vereinten Nationen waren 2001 Mitempfänger des Friedensnobelpreises. Er war Gründer und Vorsitzender der Kofi Annan Foundation sowie Vorsitzender von The Elders, einer von Nelson Mandela gegründeten internationalen Organisation. |
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.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
