In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

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

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.