Community Quote by Swanee Hunt

“Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes…

— Jack Holland

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

— Zainab Salbi

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

So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world…

— Malala Yousafzai

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader…

— Hillary Clinton

When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world - that are crucial issues…

— Antonio Guterres

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us…

— Kofi Annan

When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.

— Lynda Carter

“Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not…

— Michelle Goldberg

We have to keep advocating for women's rights, wherever they are being pushed against wherever it happens anywhere in the world.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies…

— Madeleine Albright

The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again…

— Morgan Ortagus