“Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.” — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
“Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
“Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
“The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.” — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems. — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
