U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still despite progress far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions such as the Member States creating U.N. Women into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment I think is one of the main challenges.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace equality and justice.

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing but the rise of the so-called conservative political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.