If leaders get serious about gender equality and commit to [eight solutions] now, we will change the world – for women and girls, and for us all.

I leave you with this appeal: Do not let the erosion of human rights become the accepted price of political expediency or geopolitical competition. Do not let power write a new rulebook in which the vulnerable have no rights and the powerful have no limits. [...] Because a world that protects human rights protects itself.

Let’s never forget who we are and what we represent.

The United Nations is a living promise – a promise that despite our differences, we will solve problems together.

Let’s keep that promise.

Let’s never give up. 

Our future depends on our collective courage to act.

This new year, let’s rise together:

For justice. For humanity. For peace.