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Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.

From Jenny Shipley

Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'

From Jenny Shipley

Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

From Jenny Shipley

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

From Jenny Shipley

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

From Jenny Shipley

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

From Jenny Shipley

The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.

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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

From Jenny Shipley

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

From Jenny Shipley

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

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