George Orwell

es, the geopolitical rivalry and the new arms race are intensifying that are rapidly pushing us towards a state resembling a new, second cold war and Orwell’s world too! We have rarely needed the United Nations as we do today. And, yet, the United Nations has rarely been as politically marginalized as it

my country, regardless of their identity, ethnicity, religious affiliation or lack of one, should have the same rights. If not, we will end up in an Orwellian society, where it is accepted that ultimately some people are more important than others. That will always jeopardize a society’s stability and un

hich values inform their design that will shape the future of humankind. That is the point I wish to make tonight. At stake is whether we bequeath an Orwellian world, designed for censorship, repression and control, or a world of emancipation, debate and learning, where technology threatens famine and dis

In today’s world, we cannot be guided by the philosophy of the anti-heroes of George Orwell’s dystopic novel Animal Farm, where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. In the enlightened twenty-first century, it is simply

ated spying system that humankind has ever been able to come up with. Thanks to those revelations this year, we have woken up to discover that George Orwell’s 1984 is now here. And what is the United Nations doing about that? Who is setting limits on so much arbitrariness and running roughshod?

ty of polluters? What substance can we give to our membership in this human community that the United Nations seeks to champion? To paraphrase George Orwell, beyond a certain level of inequality, there is no common world anymore. The glaring inequalities that characterize our countries’ situations are an

e, developing countries need and demand free trade in agriculture. Until we make progress on this issue, we will have to continue paraphrasing George Orwell’s famous words, and say that in free trade everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. Developing countries need development assistance a

er States of the European Union and several non- governmental organizations. Yet the Ethiopian Government, in an amazingly refined application of the Orwellian principle, accuses the Eritrean Government of precisely the outrages and atrocities it itself has been committing against Eritreans and Ethiopians

nt cycle of circumstance and violence. The imposition of peace through unilateral external intervention will only perpetuate situations embodying the Orwellian logic of "peace is war" that we see in many parts of the world today. Wisdom lies in overcoming conflict situations with a positive vision animate

n of our land from foreign occupation and from a puppet regime subservient to it. But that promise of freedom soon turned into a system that acquired Orwellian characteristics.

this unrestrained scramble for global power and complete influence over men and resources is leading us irresistibly to the 1984 nightmare evoked by Orwell, which would engulf State sovereignty as we know it, or can we as independent nation-States still achieve our freedom and self-respect in peace and h

Here is another example of Israel’s concept of equality under the law. All are to be equal, except Israel, which, as George Orwell put it, is to be “more equal than others“. It is to have two borders on a frontier while the rest are to be satisfied with less than one. That is the

at the sound of the bugle. The vast country has become one gigantic slave camp. The horrors of the communes surpass anything ever conceived by George Orwell. 96. As a result of the communal system, agricultural production has declined. A continuing famine of unprecedented proportions stalks the land. Yet