Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Michelle BacheletRead
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
Interpretation
Empowering women is essential for achieving gender equality.
This quote by Michelle Bachelet emphasizes that true gender equality cannot be realized without the active empowerment of women. It highlights the importance of providing women with the necessary resources, opportunities, and support to ensure they can participate equally in society, thereby transforming social norms and fostering a more equitable world.
In practice
During a women's rights conference to inspire attendees.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.
Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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