While Barghouti chose to stress upon the "terrible state" of Palestinians, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi highlighted how human rights and along with it human dignity had become key issues for the world to tackle.
"I am here to announce our commitment to human rights. The human suffering from war and poverty has no dignity," said Ebadi, speaking in Arabic.
"I hope in the next meeting of the forum we universally observe a better and equal world.
"The Palestinian struggle is no different from the Indian, Algerian, Vietnamese and South African freedom struggles," he told nearly 2,700 journalists from across the world. "The time has come to stop the injustice."
Jeremy Corbyn, a British parliamentarian, felt the Mumbai chapter of the forum should be a unity between the Third World countries against the World Trade Organisation, International Monetary Fund and US aggressions.
Both he and Barghouti chose to christen the WSF as the world's second superpower.
"While one superpower (read US) has the weapons of mass destruction and unrestricted access to technology, the other superpower (WSF) has the will of the people," said Corbyn. - SOURCE
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British MP Jeremy Corbyn, who said he was honoured to be the only European on stage, claimed Iraq was now "on sale to global interests".
"We have anti-terror laws in the US , the UK , India , everywhere. How can the US unleash terror against countries like Afghanistan and Iraq ?" - SOURCE
Such as it is.