“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.”
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
