Achieve Quote by Ban Ki-moon

“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

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

— Sima Samar

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their…

— Margaret Chan

We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and…

— Kofi Annan

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential…

— Jenny Shipley

I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force…

— Coretta Scott King

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the…

— Richard Attias

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be.…

— Michelle Bachelet

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

Without women's equal access to positions of decision-making power and a clear process to get there, gender equality, global security, and peace will never…

— Winnie Byanyima

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

— Hawa Abdi