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Even though women are half the humanity, women are suffering,
are suffering from exclusion, from discrimination
and from violence
That's why UN Women was developed
to trigger progress on gender quality
women on Parliament and women's rights.
It is one of our priorities,
to ensure an environment that
will permit women to live free of violence.
Haiti is not different from many parts of the world
in terms that women are disproportionally affected by
political conflict and, of course,
a natural disaster like an earthquake
Unfortunately war affects disproportionally women
One of the problems we see in conflicts like Liberia
is that conflict ends,
peace is signed,
but violence against women doesn't end.
But mainly I see women
as strong contributors of peace.
So we support an iniciative called
Peace Huts
“we follow the investigations.
When they hear the police say
there is no evidence of this kind,
we'll give them evidence.
Come, let's show you the evidence!”
Imagine fifty women
all walking to one wall
and telling the man:
you touch her again we'll take you to the police.
Then women come out of the wall
now taking their own security in their own hands
and saying No, we can't allow this more.
They have been able to give women
much better conditions than in the past.
So there is a place,
there is a very good model of women's empowerment.
If we want a world that is more balanced
that can assure peace and security for everyone,
we need more women participating
in decision making in politics.
We have been working in India for some time.
As a matter of fact we did work on a project
to support women as candidates
to their “Punjaba “ Council.
One million women were elected.
If you look at it,
it's probably the biggest absolute number in the world.
UN Women in Egypt
identified as a problem that a lot of women
didn't have IDs,
not only they did not permit them to vote
but also not to have benefits
of normal rights
because of the lack of identity cards.
We are starting with a pilot project
forty thousand women had no identity cards.
We got them to fill up applications
which have been sent to the Civil Registry
We made a partnership with with te Egyptian government
and we provided identity cards
so they were able to not only vote,
but also to be a full citizen
in other dimensions.
“I can now register my children in school
and buy a small part of land”
I feel safer and more secure with an ID”
“I'm getting married after the
I will use my ID for my marriage certificate.
Without an ID I have no rights.”
All the study shows that
when women are economically in power,
everybody wins.
Working with illiterate grandmothers
from very rural villages
to build a solar power pannel
that will bring light.
If you have light in some place
you can have a small health care facility,
you can have vaccines,
children could have more time with light to study
and they can also produce pannels and sell them
so they can generate an income.
Talking to one woman once she said:
“You know what?
Yes, I want to be seated on the table,
but that's not it.
I want to discuss the shape of the table,
where we are gonna be seated.”
On behalf of UN Women
it is my pleasure to welcome you
to the Rio+20 Women's leader summit
In Rio+20 we had a very important meeting
with women head of states , head of governments.
to commit to a future
with sustainable development
a future with peace
and a future of a world
where women can live free of violence.
Societies where women are free and equal
are more successful and more developed
We cannot meet our global challenges without
the full participation of half the world's population
I can today say
that the system where the actual plan has been developed
under the auspices of UN Women
and with a group of UN institutions
represents an enormous step forward
I think it has provided all of us
with a common agenda
and above all with a common framework
to which we can work in the years
that lie ahead
Half of humanity has been discriminated
almost in all history
and it is about time
that we wake up on the need
for empowerment of women
We need to raise the status of women in the world
and in every country
we need to see
the institutionlized system of
women being protected and promoted.
By working closely with UN Women
we can actually do a lot
to bring awareness to crimes against women
but also to see how we can address these crimes.
In accordance with UN Women,
we aim to work together
to spread the message that progress for women
means progress for every society.
UN Women's leadership training
helps give women a stronger voice
in their homes and communities
and through those women,
inspiration for the next generations.
We like to think that if UN Women succeeds
the world would be a better place for everybody
because I believe that women
should rule the world and
should be the ones in charge.
There is no place in the world
where we have full women's rights,
what we've been able to do
is to put the women's agenda as a priority.