We have started 2023 staring down the barrel of a confluence of challenges unlike any other in our lifetimes. Wars grind on. The climate crisis burns on. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty rage on. Epic geopolitical divisions are undermining global solidarity and trust. This path is a dead end. We need a course correction... The Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights point the way out of [this] dead end. They are a source of solutions and a source of hope. Let us draw from that source, let us draw from that hope, and act decisively before it is too late. Time is short. And the clock is ticking. — ANTÓNIO GUTERRES