Connections Quote by Mahnaz Afkhami

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

“Those hundreds of “gender projects” funded by aid money might have been more effective if they had also included men. The fact that Westerners…

— Jenny Nordberg

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens…

— Helen Clark

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can…

— Mackenzie Davis

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

— Mahnaz Afkhami

True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for…

— Ban Ki-moon

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.

— Kofi Annan

Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace

— Jan Eliasson

It's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is no peace…

— Antonio Guterres

For development, peace is essential.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

— Taslima Nasrin

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is…

— Erica Jong