Category: Quotes

“International movement building in the 21st century and involvement of youth in advocacy will be made possible largely through technology” – Engendering IT Tools

“The central problem of cultural relativism is that it must deny rights to women (or men) who have become aware that they posess rights because they possess an identity that is theirs independently of the community to which they belong.” – Cultural Relativism And Women’s Human Rights

“Women’s empowerment is a process, a holistic approach that involves raising consciousness, building skills and reforming unjust laws that limit women’s education, their employment, their participation in decision making, and above all, their opportunities for economic independence.” – Freedom Leads To Empowerment

“Quotas are a good starting point. But they are not the end-goal.” – Mauritania Moves Toward Political Empowerment of Women

“Women’s representation in political life worldwide is less than 14 per cent” – Women’s Conference Opens in Jordan

“Activism women realize that awareness of rights is the first step in gaining a political voice and the political power to gain rights.” – Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation

“Iran’s One Million Signatures Campaign for the Reform of Discriminatory Laws is an extraordinary phenomenon. It is democratic, nonhierarchical, open, and evolving in a polity that is none of those things.” – Iranian Women’s One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality: The Inside Story, Foreword

At the time of her execution, [Ms. Parsay] wrote one of the most moving letters to her children. And in that she expressed the same courage and the same steadfast belief in her principles that she had followed all of her life. And that was that: I’m a doctor. I know what it means to…