A selection of the work and commitments of the late Kofi Annan that fell outside of the Foundations’ main projects.
Fisheries Transparency Initiative
Kofi Annan and the Africa Progress Panel support the new Global Fisheries Transparency Initiative. “Massive plunder” of the world’s fisheries is...Read More
Africa could go Green
Kofi Annan indicated that “Africa has the possibility of being the first continent to become a green continent”, in his remarks last...Read More
In Search of a New Order
During the celebrations of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s birthday in Berlin, Kofi Annan’s keynote speech outlined the challenges of a new...Read More
Statement by Kofi Annan : The migration debate in Denmark: a European race to the bottom
Geneva, 26 January – I am worried by the new refugee law before the Danish Parliament today. It is in sharp contrast with...Read More
The Case for Citizen Leadership
This piece was published in January 2016 in newspapers across the world. In it Kofi Annan analyses the world’s major fault-line and...Read More
The Elders welcome UN Report on Humanitarian Funding
The Elders welcome the new report on humanitarian funding by the UN High-Level Panel, chaired by Kristalina Georgieva and HRH Sultan Nazrin...Read More
Rethinking Sanctions
SINGAPORE – Today, the United Nations Security Council has more sanctions regimes in place than at any time in its history. During...Read More
2016: A Year for Passionate Intensity and Positive Change
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity” The Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote these words...Read More
The Grassroots of Climate Change
PARIS – The climate-change agreement reached here on December 12 was a rich victory for diplomacy. Both the agreement itself and the...Read More
The Case For True Leadership on Climate Change
A few months ago, I was greatly blessed by the birth of a third grandchild. His arrival caused me to reflect on...Read More