Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
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Women can build stability. We can make peace.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.
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.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
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