By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

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

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.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.