Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

Particularly here in the United States there is a lack of comprehension about anything to do with the United Nations.

The international human rights framework is a vital component and engine for promoting global values. Governments have signed up to this international legal framework and we should hold them accountable, in all circumstances from environmental or labour standards, to trade talks, arms control and security issues as well as other international legal codes.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

All countries are particular and no models are perfect.

It is a time when Irish women can link - as they are linking - through networks. They can do this through having an outward-looking attitude to what's happening to women in other countries, and by being affected by a broader debate.