We the Peoples
The Nobel Lecture Given by the 2001 Nobel Peace Laureate
The Secretary-General's Nobel lecture, and the challenge to world leaders that became the Millennium Development Goals.
Kofi Annan’s Nobel lecture, delivered in Oslo in 2001, published with the presentation address. Annan argues that the sovereignty of states cannot be a shield for the abuse of the people inside them, and that the security of humanity has to be addressed at the level of the individual. It stands as the clearest short statement of the case he made through the Millennium Development Goals.
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Jeffrey Sachs
Of course, I am especially attracted to this powerful document because it is the place where the world leaders adopted the Millennium Development Goals. It’s in that context that Kofi Annan challenged the world leaders to adopt specific time-bound development goals. And they were adopted in the Millennium Summit in 2000 and that started this 15-year process of which we are now in the tenth year.
Interview · September 2010
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