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" When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses. "

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" The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back. "

" Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies. "

" If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises. "

" If there are not jobs or adequate forms of social protection, there is not enough income to create the consumption base that drives demand and sustainable economic growth. "

" The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich. "

" I've had an enormously privileged working life. "

" A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality. "

" Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours. "

" As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. "

" All business must have a social license to operate. "

" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "

" Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift. "

" Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee. "

" As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing their homes, wondering how their kids will make their way in the world. "

" We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy. "

" Public opinion must be heard. "

" Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter. "

" Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains. "

" With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed. "

" We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information. "

" Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity. "

" Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. "

" Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential. "

" When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps. "

" We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish. "

" There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people. "

" There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. "

" Trade unions have stood at the front lines of struggles for democratic change and social justice throughout history. In many countries, we are the organized voice of oppositions to governments operating at the behest of corporate power and vested interests. "

" Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries. "

" We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. "