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We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

Leadership desperately needs women.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Women need to support women.