Mahnaz Afkhami

“Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

“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…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

“The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.”

— Mahnaz Afkhami

...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

— Mahnaz Afkhami

We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

— Mahnaz Afkhami