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2002-07-25
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  1. “An ancient Chinese philosopher captured the contribution of women to peace and security best when he said: "If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." What a beautiful tribute to womanhood. And on this score, I want to greet, salute and thank Ms. Angela King and Ms. Noeleen Heyzer and, of course, Mr. Guehenno, for their presentations today.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  2. “In Lysistrata, a masterpiece of comedy written in 411 BC, Aristophanes tells of how, during the silly and unnecessary Peloponnesian war between the city-state of Athens and Sparta, the women ended the military madness and exposed the absurdity and futility of war by seizing, first, the Acropolis, which contained the Treasury, then refusing to have intimate relations with the returning men soldiers. Taken together, their actions of seizure and sex strike brought peace and development in a century very far away and removed from the twenty-first century. Finally, we men serve as the link between home, where lessons are first taught and learned, and the wider world, where they are applied in pursuit of peace and security.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  3. “Beginning with a generous wonder at nature, men end up with fascination for the tool, the scientific instrument. They establish governments to give order to life and then end up coveting the functions of government more than life. The masculine genius for organization, Stratton said, needs women's sense of the heart of things, not the trappings. I cannot end without recalling from Greek mythology the resourcefulness, the common sense and the power of women.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  4. “The report of the sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, published on 25 March 2002, tells how far we are from attaining this goal. Given the opportunity for education, women and girls do as well as men and boys. Some even think that women and girls do better. In 1916, psychologist George Stratton of the University of Southern California described what he considered - what he considered, remember, not what I consider - the inherent superiority of the female brain in seeing the whole picture. Writing on feminism and psychology in Century Magazine, he expressed the hope that women would dispel masculine illusions when they took their rightful place in society. Men, he said, tend to fix on cogs instead of flesh and blood.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  5. “Is it not incongruous that more than 50 years after the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that the political landscape is still dominated by men? Yet all international instruments and all national legislatures enshrine the principle of equality between men and women. Men have a responsibility therefore to help remove the patriarchal dominance in society and to allow the private virtues of women to go public. Indeed, men of quality should never feel threatened by women for equality. Gender equality is predicated upon education of girls and boys so that they can be empowered throughout their life in today's globalizing world to enter the gender mainstream of equal opportunity.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  6. “While progress has been made, we cannot fail to see that we are still a long way from attaining the proclaimed goal of women's rights as human rights, as was discussed in the Millennium Report, or of equal rights of men and women affirmed in the Charter, or of everyone, without discrimination, having the right to equal pay for equal work, as emphasized in article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yet, gender imbalance is nowhere more noticeable than in the workplace, where on average women earn at least 30 per cent less than men for equal work. Moreover, in the home, where a woman's domestic role as spouse and mother is so vital to the well-being of society, her work is always undervalued and underpaid. Unpaid domestic work everywhere is seen as a woman's responsibility.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  7. “This was issued just before the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly in June 2000, entitled "Women 2000: Gender, Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century". The intent was to show the progress as well as the disparities between women and men worldwide in health, human rights, political decision-making, work, education and families. Due to time constraints, my delegation will touch briefly on three subject areas, namely, human rights, political decision-making and work.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  8. “Here lies a glorious opportunity to involve women in peacemaking, peace-building and peacekeeping at the highest level, nationally and internationally. The age-old saying that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world remains only a good adage unless women are brought into the mainstream of decision-making at the highest political, educational, social, economic, cultural and other levels. Then, and only then, will the world give credence and substance to the ancient Chinese proverb that women hold up half the sky. The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995, drew up the Beijing Declaration and Programme of Action. It contains 12 subject areas, 6 of which are analysed in the United Nations publication entitled "The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics".”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source

  9. “In my 12 years at the United Nations, this is the first time that I avail myself of the opportunity to address this body. Although I have spoken many times in other United Nations forums, I do so today because the item on the Council's agenda - women, peace and security - is near and dear to my heart as I approach my fiftieth wedding anniversary. I begin with the premise that the family is the basis of society and that good family life is inextricably intertwined with and interwoven into good national life, which by extension can promote good international life. From time immemorial, much of the peace and harmony of the human family, especially in conflict resolution therein, devolves upon the woman of the house in her natural milieu as peacemaker.”

    2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source