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Let's look finally at an area where we are struggling, which is what we call personal rights and inclusiveness.

So across those SDGs there are themes around rights and inclusiveness, and those may seem less immediate or pressing than things like hunger and disease, but rights and inclusion are critical to an agenda of no one left behind.

Let's start off with personal rights.

So what's been our direction of travel on the rights agenda over the last three years?

And what we see on personal rights for the whole world is we're forecasting actually a decline in the score on personal rights to about 60, and then this decline in the score of inclusiveness to about 42.

Now, obviously these things can change quite quickly with rights and with changes in law, changes in attitudes, but we have to accept that on current trends, this is probably the most worrying aspect of the SDGs.

The fact that the SDGs are focusing attention on the fact that we face a crisis in personal rights and inclusiveness is a positive.

And the first step in that is selling the rights to resource extraction.

You know how rights to resource extraction are being sold at the moment, how they've been sold over the last 40 years?

And the British Treasury decided that it would sell the rights to third-generation mobile phones by working out what those rights were worth.

I graduated from university to become a theater director, and that progress is entirely to do with the fact that people I'll never meet fought for women to have rights, get the vote, get education, have progress.

And unless we're prepared to believe that women's stories really matter, then women's rights don't really matter, and then change can't really come.

Which is fine, but then females need to have 50 percent of the rights for the stage, the film, the novel, the place of creativity.

Basically, we face an enormous and growing number of gigantic, existential global challenges: climate change, human rights abuses, mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, weapons proliferation.

After Yale and a law degree from Columbia, Clyde spent the next 30 years as one of America's top civil rights lawyers.

Twenty years ago, when I was a barrister and human rights lawyer in full-time legal practice in London, and the highest court in the land still convened, some would say by an accident of history, in this building here, I met a young man who had just quit his job in the British Foreign Office.

He had gone to his boss one morning and said, "Let's do something about human rights abuses in China."

And his boss had replied, "We can't do anything about human rights abuses in China because we have trade relations with China."

So my friend went away with his tail between his legs, and six months later, he returned again to his boss, and he said this time, "Let's do something about human rights in Burma," as it was then called.

His boss once again paused and said, "Oh, but we can't do anything about human rights in Burma because we don't have any trade relations with Burma."

Imagine that you purchase a plot of land not knowing the mineral rights have been sold.

It's used to silence civil rights protesters in the 20th century.

This is about human rights, about gender equality.

And its proponents have spanned the spectrum from the left to the right, from the civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, to the economist Milton Friedman.

We are committed to healing ourselves, to lacing up our sneakers, to walking out of our front door every single day for total healing and transformation in our communities, because we understand that we are in the footsteps of a civil rights legacy like no other time before, and that we are facing a health crisis like never ever before.

The right to protest, the right to assemble freely, the right to petition one's government, these are not just rights.

And we recently were taking stands for why Ann Coulter needs to be able to speak at Berkeley, and why Milo has free speech rights.

And we even wrote a blog that almost burnt the house down among some of our members, unfortunately, when we talked about the fact that even Donald Trump has free speech rights as president, and an effort to hold him accountable for incitement of violence at his marches or his rallies is unconstitutional and un-American.

And when you put that statement out there to a very frothy base that always is very excited for you to fight Donald Trump, and then you have a new one saying, "Wait, these rights are for everybody, even the president that we don't like."

The reason that refugees have rights around the world is because of extraordinary Western leadership by statesmen and women after the Second World War that became universal rights.

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