In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

Count up the results of 50 years of human rights mechanisms, 30 years of multibillion-dollar development programs and endless high-level rhetoric, and the global impact is quite underwhelming, ... This is a failure of implementation on a scale which shames us all.

I believe that there is a more serious realization (in Moscow) of the serious scale of human rights allegations that need to be investigated,

There are certainly human rights concerns. Very serious human rights concerns that I would like to have fully clarified,

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

building reconciliation between ethnic groups, issues of human rights, more tolerance and commitment to democratic human rights values.