The former UN secretary general, Kofi Annan has called for the tackling of depression to be made a global priority, with mental health incorporated into a new UN Millennium Development Goal after the deadline for achieving the current goals passes in 2015.
He called for an urgent escalation of humanitarian efforts to stop the crisis in the Sahel and made renewed calls for tackling the region's high levels of malnutrition through improved health systems, social services, social protection, and support for sustainable livelihoods and behaviour change.
It has called for action on tackling the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources by placing responsibility for health and health equity at the highest level of government; fair financing, strengthening public finance and fairly allocating government resources; promoting gender equity; promoting political empowerment and good governance.
The leaders of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have both called for action to tackle inequality.
The group was involved in spearheading the Gibson Resolution, in which 15 Republican members of Congress called for action to tackle the risks posed by climate change.
It was groups representing immigrants from Commonwealth countries like the West Indies and Pakistan that called for legislation to tackle discrimination.
In a significant shift on Monday, Britain's bosses called for action to tackle the living standards crisis, by lifting the lowest paid out of national insurance and expanding free childcare.
José Viñals, director of the monetary and capital markets department at the I.M.F., called for countries to tackle the high public debts through fiscal consolidation over the medium term, address lingering vulnerabilities in their banking systems and make more progress on overhauling financial regulations.
The former policing minister, Nick Herbert, called for action to tackle what he called the "cancer" of corruption within the police.
In a television interview broadcast on the weekend, he called for reforms to tackle structural economic problems.
