Winnie Byanyima

The coun­try needs ur­gent help with debt re­lief and hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid.

The rich­est one per­cent took 82 per­cent of the wealth gen­er­at­ed in 2017, while the poor­est half of hu­man­i­ty got noth­ing.

Re­newed ne­go­ti­a­tions, guid­ed by the peo­ple of South Su­dan, can bring gen­uine and long-last­ing peace to the coun­try.

It’s time to forge an am­bi­tious but com­mon-sense eco­nom­ic de­sign that would ben­e­fit the 99 per­cent, not the 1 per­cent.

De­vel­op­ing na­tions lay claim to the man­tle of lead­er­ship for a fair­er, safer world.

Now is the time to con­tin­ue march­ing for­ward with our heads and plac­ards held high for all to see.

As the hu­man­i­tar­i­an scale-up in the re­gion con­tin­ues, gov­ern­ments and donors are urged to do their part.

So­cial norms which en­cour­age vi­o­lence against women need to be con­front­ed and changed.

For now, these sum­mits risk be­ing but a half-heart­ed be­gin­ning to help those mil­lions of peo­ple forced to flee.

On the 65th an­niver­sary of the Refugee Con­ven­tion, let’s #Stan­dA­sOne with our 65 mil­lion forcibly dis­placed peo­ple.