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---> Mrs. Mongella, Under Secretary Kittani, distinguished delegates and
guests:
I would like to thank the Secretary General of the United Nations for
inviting me to be part of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on
Women. This is truly a celebration – a celebration of the contributions
women make in every aspect of life: in the home, on the job, in their
communities, as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, learners, workers,
citizens and leaders.
It is also a coming together, much the way women come together every
day in every country.
We come together in fields and in factories. In village markets and supermarkets.
In living rooms and board rooms.
There are some who question the reason for this conference.
Let them listen to the voices of women in their homes, neighborhoods,
and workplaces.
There are some who wonder whether the lives of women and girls matter
to economic and political progress around the globe.
Let them look at the women gathered here and at Huairou – the homemakers,
nurses, teachers, lawyers, policymakers, and women who run
their own businesses.
It is conferences like this that compel governments and people everywhere
to listen, look and face the world’s most pressing problems.
What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and
educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence,their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as
full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish.
And when families flourish, communities and nations will flourish.
That is why every woman, every man, every child, every family, and every
nation on our planet has a stake in the discussion that takes place here.
As an American, I want to speak up for women in my own country - women
who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who can’t afford
health care or child care, women whose lives are threatened by violence,
including violence in their own homes.
I want to speak up for mothers who are fighting for good schools, safe
neighborhoods, clean air and clean airwaves; for older women, some
of them widows, who have raised their families and now find that their
skills and life experiences are not valued in the workplace; for women
who are working all night as nurses, hotel clerks, and fast food cooks so
that they can be at home during the day with their kids; and for women
everywhere who simply don’t have time to do everything they are called
upon to do each day.
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the
slavery of prostitution.
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline,
set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed
too small.
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their
own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape
as a tactic or prize of war.
Now it is time to act on behalf of women everywhere. If we take bold
steps to better the lives of women, we will be taking bold steps to better
the lives of children and families too.
Families rely on mothers and wives for emotional support and care; families
rely on women for labor in the home; and increasingly, families rely
on women for income needed to raise healthy children and care for other
relatives.
As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace around
the world – as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last,
overworked, underpaid, not schooled and subjected to violence in and
out of their homes – the potential of the human family to create a peaceful,
prosperous world will not be realized.
Let this Conference be our – and the world’s – call to action.
And let us heed the call so that we can create a world in which every
woman is treated with respect and dignity, every boy and girl is loved and
cared for equally, and every family has the hope of a strong and stable
future.
Thank you very much.
God’s blessings on you, your work and all who will benefit from it.