Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.
I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.
In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier; they are better fed; their income, savings, and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is true of communities and, eventually, whole countries.
These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.
