Antonio Guterres Quotes

Antonio Guterres is a Portuguese diplomat and the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. He has a long and distinguished career in international diplomacy, previously serving as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Guterres is known for his efforts in promoting global peace, advocating for human rights, and addressing climate change. As Secretary-General, he plays a crucial role in coordinating international cooperation and tackling pressing global challenges.

Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.

The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.

It's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is no peace and sustainable development without respect for human rights.

We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.

We have to transcend our differences to transform ... -Antonio Guterres

We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.

If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the legal definition, but they represent a major humanitarian and human rights challenge, as well as a major challenge for world politics.

Negative gender stereotypes related to girls' education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics begin as early as primary school and have the devastating effect of making them doubt their own potential.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya - there was a lot of international attention. Statelessness goes undetected because stateless people are in legal limbo and are afraid to show up.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.

Authorities that erect major obstacles to migration - or place severe restrictions on migrants' work opportunities - inflict needless economic self-harm, as they impose barriers to having their labor needs met in an orderly, legal fashion. Worse still, they unintentionally encourage illegal migration.

United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'

Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.

Antonio Guterres Quotes

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