There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.