“Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.”
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The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
