UN General Assembly
2010

fully assess what has happened since it was founded. This is the appropriate place to assess the progress achieved as well as the failings. It is also here that we can envisage solutions to problems that now confront the world. Those issues include poverty, which is the source of all evils, and which remains an open wound on humanity, which continues to make progress to the point where it is already considering human settlements on the moon. But unfortunately, at the same time, humanity is forgetting that more than a billion men and women across the planet Earth suffer from hunger. Women’s lives are lost as they give life. Millions of children die before reaching the age of 5, and access to drinking water is limited in Africa. The AIDS epidemic and the malaria epidemic kill more people than all the wars combined. If the world is powerless, the United Nations must be adapted to provide proper responses to those imbalances, because there are not two worlds, there is just one world, which