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218 sentences in 100 speeches for women
Download CSVSweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 13 sentences
- There at the bank, she met many women with little to no experience with finances and who were left vulnerable when circumstances changed.
- She wrote in her diary about some of the women she met, many of whom were recently widowed.
- My grandmother was as independent as a woman in that time and place could be, but she worried deeply about the consequences for the women who were not.
- During her life, she witnessed extraordinary progress, but two generations later, far too many women are still entirely economically dependent on men.
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 8 sentences
- Mongolia has been actively advancing the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, Women, Peace and Security, and has become one of the few countries to have reached 15 percent women's participation and representation among its military personnel serving in UN PKOs.
- Since 2006, when Mongolia deployed its first female peacekeeper to the UN mission in Western Sahara, Mongolian women have made valuable contributions to global peace over the past two decades through their courage, resilience, and ingenuity.
- In this connection, Mongolia plans to host the second International Conference on Women's Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations in Ulaanbaatar in 2027.
- It is time for all of us to ponder and reflect with common sense on what progress could have been achieved in the development of human society if these huge budget and funds had been spent on tackling pressing issues such as combating global warming and climate change and improving education, health, food security, and advancement of women and children.
Bangladesh · Tarique Rahman · Day 3 · 7 sentences
- The courageous participation of Bangladeshi women in peacekeeping missions, even under adverse circumstances, reflects our strong commitment to advancing the agenda of women, peace and security.
- Therefore, women are at the forefront of all government plans for socio-economic transformation.
- The government is giving priority to women's education, women's employment, and the creation of women entrepreneurs.
- To promote women entrepreneurship, particularly in the small and medium-sized industrial sector, the government has expanded opportunities for cash financing for women.
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- In this charter, they wrote the best chapters, our forefathers wrote it, the men and women who saw the world burn.
- These men and women laid down their wisdom and their hope in this Charter, and they didn't ask us to keep it in a glass case.
- And today, more than ever, when feminism is being attacked, when thousands of women are falling victim to machism, violence and xenophobia, we must reaffirm this commitment.
- And I want To be very clear, I'm not saying this because I think that women have anything to prove.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 6 sentences
- Renewed pressure on women's rights and gender equality is putting hard-won progress at risk.
- Women and girls are being told that their ambitions, their education, their voices, and their very presence in public life are unacceptable.
- The systematic exclusion of women and girls from education, employment and public life is not something that the international community can simply observe from a distance.
- Women are being denied the ability to work, to participate fully in society, and to contribute to the economic and social life of their country.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- This same requirement for dignity needs to guide our approach to migrations as well, because behind statistics and debates, there are women, children, and men who carry with them a history, talents, hopes, and sometimes the burden of exile.
- Massacres, bereaved families, women that have fallen victim to despicable violence, children deprived of their innocence, and communities chased away from their homes need to compel us to act.
- For them, for their families, for these 12 million women, men, and children, for children that are asking only to grow up, to dream, and to live in peace, we cannot resign ourselves to seeing deaths and wounded people be mere numbers in our reports.
- And we must gradually transform resources mobilized in order to manage the crisis into investments that can create jobs and sustainable opportunities, in particular for our young people and our women.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 6 sentences
- Women and young people must participate meaningfully.
- We recognize the men and women who serve under the United Nations flag, particularly those who have lost their lives in the service of peace.
- Invest in women and young people.
- Mr. President, South Sudan and young people, women and young people of South Sudan are essential to President Kiir's vision.
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- Generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma left by the genocide of women and children perpetrated By Netanyahu government in Gaza, Israeli civilians pay the price for radicalism and intolerance of Hamas terrorist acts.
- We passed one of the most advanced pieces of legislations in the world to protect children, adolescents, and women in the digital environment.
- This change is crucial to alleviate the domestic burden that still falls on women.
- We are building a Brazil where women don't need permission to occupy positions of power or enter the job market, a country free from femicide, where no woman, inside or outside their home, lives under the threat of violence, where Once again, no woman inside or outside their home lives under the threat of violence.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Women, LGBTQI+ people, minorities, migrants, people who look different, love differently, or live differently.
- And nowhere is the backlash more extreme than in Afghanistan, where women and girls have been systematically erased from public life.
- Women are denied basic freedoms.
- They created Human Rights Council, OCHA, ICC, UN Women and the UNFCCC.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 5 sentences
- Women, children, older people, families forced from their homes, hospitals and schools destroyed, food, water and medicine denied.
- Afghan women and girls continue to face a systematic restriction on education, employment, movement, public participation, and access to justice.
- Girls remain excluded from secondary and higher education, women are increasingly excluded from public life.
- San Marino called for the full restoration of the right of Afghan women and girls.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- No discussion of inequality can ignore its most universal form, the inequality between women and men.
- Everywhere, Women and girls continue to face discrimination, violence, exclusion, and abuse.
- Peace is more durable when women are at the table.
- Economies are more dynamic when women have equal opportunity.
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- In Gaza alone, over the past three years, we have lost 74,000 of our brothers and sisters, most of them women and children, mind you.
- In particular, Muslim women and girls have been subjected to greater discrimination in recent years.
- We regard the headscarf bans introduced in schools by certain countries as an attack on women's most fundamental rights.
- We can break the siege only by protecting the family consisting of women and men.
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- We are also on the front line in defending individual freedom and women's rights, and fighting, among other things, the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation.
- We place men and women, our resources and our expertise at the service of peace in UNIFIL and in every mission in which we participate.
- To all our men and women in uniform, we go, we'll go the gratitude of the government, our institutions, and the Italian people.
- Amid the ruins, men and women decided to pull together coal and steel, rather than use them to build new guns.
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, peace must be built and nurtured through institutions that command public confidence, societies in which trust can be restored and justice pursued, and a future in which women and young people have a meaningful voice and economic opportunity is within reach.
- We also reaffirm our support for United Nations peacebuilding operations and pay tribute to the men and women who serve under the UN flag, including government, military, and police personnel who have contributed with distinction to international peace and security.
- We are expanding opportunities for women and young people, improving lives, and strengthening the human capital upon which our future depends.
- We must strengthen cooperation for safe, orderly, and regular migration, protect the rights and dignity of migrants, and expand lawful pathways for labor mobility, as well as invest in young people, women, education, health, and social protection to safeguard sustainable development and lasting peace.
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 4 sentences
- Mr. President, we cannot speak about development without speaking about women and youth.
- Kiribati remains committed to gender equality and empowering women and girls.
- Our election earlier this year to the Commission on the Status of Women, the first time Kiribati has secured a seat on this UN body, is a significant milestone, reflecting our determination to advance women's rights nationally and globally.
- We will expand opportunities, prevent violence, and promote women's economic empowerment and leadership.
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- Zambia is equally committed to promoting gender equality and economic empowerment of women and girls.
- For the first time in our history, Parliament now provides for proportional representation of women, young people, and persons with disabilities, reflecting our conviction that their voices and experiences must be heard in shaping the decisions that affect our nation.
- By inviting our people, particularly women, girls, and young people, we are investing in Zambia's future.
- And when we invest in Africa's young people and women, we invest in the prosperity of our continent and the world at large.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 3 sentences
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- We are investing in our people, productive infrastructure, technology and innovation, while creating greater opportunity for women and young people.
- During our tenure in the Council, we will put forward and prioritize deliberations on matters vital to the maintenance of international peace and security such as preventive diplomacy and the peaceful settlement of disputes, women in peacekeeping, youth in peace and security, and the reform of the United Nations peacekeeping.
- Similar accolades are for Ambassador Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, who has played a pivotal role in advancing the SDGs, advocacy for women, children, and those whose voices are too often unheard.
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- As the African Union champion for the Youth Peace and Security Agenda, I have this year once again convened a continental youth dialogue coupled with the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.
- During this dialogue, I sensed the enthusiasm of young people and women to build a community with a shared future in the spirit of Ubuntu.
- This emerged from the discussions at the fifth continental dialogue on youth peace and security held in Bujumbura from August 10 to 12, 2026, a dialogue that highlighted the link between water, peace, conflict prevention, and inclusive leadership by young people and women.
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 3 sentences
Zimbabwe · Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- With more than half of our population under the age of 25, my government is prioritizing legal frameworks that empower young people, advance gender equality, and strengthen the protection of women and children against domestic violence.
- We welcome global progress in advancing the rights and full participation of women and persons with disabilities in the economy, and Solomon Islands is committed to accelerating that progress at home.
- Charters do not keep the peace, the men and women who honor them do.
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Ladies and gentlemen, for generations, Palestinians, particularly women, children and the elderly have been subjected to occupation, eviction, suffering and death.
- Fundamental rights of the Afghan people, especially women and girls, must be respected under all circumstances.
- For decades, Pakistani men and women have served under the blue flag, protecting civilians and helping countries emerge from conflict.
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- We believe that the success of reform and development depends on the participation of women and youth.
- Therefore, Tunisia emphasizes its commitment to strengthening the role of women in public life and in decision-making positions, and to continuing efforts to combat all forms of violence and discrimination against women, recognizing that women's empowerment is a key driver of development and stability.
- including through the establishment of an international platform for exchanging expertise and information, the development of a unified operational manual, and the strengthening of training, capacity building, and civil-military coordination, which should include both men and women.
Oman · Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- We also continue to empower women's active participation and contribution to the development process and decision making.
- Women are an integral part of the sustainable development process and should not be viewed solely as a goal of development efforts.
- We therefore allocated 11 permanent and elected seats for women in the Omani Shura Council.
Sao Tome and Principe · Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz · Day 5 · 3 sentences
- There can be no sustainable development without these conditions, nor without the full participation of women and men in political, economic, and social life.
- which is a significant step towards strengthening the inclusion and participation of women.
- With women accounting for 41.4% of confirmed candidacies above the legal threshold of 40%, they will be able to assert a growing presence in decision-making spaces.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Conflicts affect all human beings, women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, as well as people who are already vulnerable.
- Luxembourg has unstintingly worked to contribute to this effort through peacekeeping operations, humanitarian interventions, protecting children affected by armed conflict, the women, peace and security agenda, as well as the mine clearance humanitarian activities in Ukraine.
Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- The women put forward for this office have placed their competence beyond dispute.
- Sierra Leone will continue to contribute personally to United Nations peace operations, uphold international law, support mediation and peace building, defend the right of women and girls, and serve as a bridge wherever member states seek one.
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- The alleged defenders of human rights have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets.
- That is why I say to the free men and women of the world, to scientists, entrepreneurs, and creators, to those who have dreamed of a land where they can make a new beginning, look south.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- You have remained humble, honest, and steadfast in your principles, never losing sight of the millions of women and children who have been abandoned and forgotten, caught in the turmoil of wars unleashed by warlords.
- They are people, they are women, they are children, youth in their best years, they are parents, they are grandparents.
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- The rights of the child, access to education, equal participation of women and girls, in societal processes, as well as the full inclusion of young people in these processes, are vital for building societies in which each of us has a voice in decisions that determine our future.
- from guaranteeing the right of each child to education to the consistent implementation of the women, peace and security agenda.
Namibia · Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- This fairness and justice should extend to the participation of women in decision-making, including in the prevention and resolution of conflict, post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding, in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
- The women, peace and security agenda has contributed positively to the rehabilitation, reconciliation, and reintegration efforts in conflict-affected regions, serving as a core framework for stabilizing post-conflict situations.
Mozambique · Daniel Francisco Chapo · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- This priority commitment serves the entire population, particularly women and children, while providing our youth with the means to build their future with confidence and contribute to national development.
- To give substance to this vision, we have launched a historic process of inclusive national dialogue, bringing together all the vital forces of the nation, young people, women, persons with disabilities, political parties, civil society, the armed forces, and the private sector.
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, for centuries, this tragedy was rendered in the passive voice as though the millions of African men, women, and children just vanished into the shadows of time.
- while incentivizing round-the-clock commercial operations, driving value addition in agriculture, mining, and creating sustainable, dignified jobs for our vibrant youth and women.
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Liberia · Joseph Nyuma Boakai · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- The Kingdom continues to advance its Economic Vision 2030, pursue its commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and strengthen the status and advancement of Bahraini women.
- The Kingdom embraces the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the Youth, Peace and Security agenda, both our priorities during our membership in the Security Council.
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 2 sentences
- Our policies are based on a very clear gender perspective, boosting the rights of women, prioritizing the poorest, indigenous peoples, persons of African descent, persons with disabilities, children, infants, older persons, and people of different sexual and gender identities.
- At the United Nations, it is also time for women.
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Mister President and excellencies, Our actions on gender equality continues to address barriers to women's leadership, economic participation, and access to justice, digital safety, and protection from violence, particularly for women and girls in remote and outer island communities.
- We are mainstreaming gender across state and national planning, strengthening survivor centered services, expanding women's economic empowerment, and decision making and engaging in preventing gender-based violence and advancing equality.
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- The Holy See renews its heartfelt appeal for an immediate end to the conflict in Sudan, a land that has for too long been ravaged by indiscriminate violence affecting the most defenseless, starting with children and women.
- The Holy See urges the international community to generously commit to meeting the immediate needs of the most at risk, especially women and children.
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- President, it is with my heart full of the memory of thousands of children, women and men from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, innocent victims of terrorism that I am taking the floor here this morning.
- Our priorities must be clearly defined, reducing the digital gap, strengthening climate resilience, investing in human capital, consolidating and strengthening educational health systems, supporting industrialization, ensuring the effective participation of youth and women in decision making.
Turkmenistan · Vepa Hajiyev · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- Lasting peace is impossible without the full participation of women and young people, the preservation of human dignity, mutual respect, and equal opportunities.
- Our country will continue to advance the women and peace and security agenda, including by developing the Central Asian Women's Dialogue and expanding its cooperation within the United Nations Peace Building Commission and UN Women.
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Dominica · Sylvanie Burton · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Eswatini · King Mswati III · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Honduras · Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 1 sentence
European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Rob Jetten · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tajikistan · Sirojiddin Muhriddin · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Gabon · Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Mali · Abdoulaye Diop · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Malawi · George Chapatula Chaponda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Thailand · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · · Day 6 · 1 sentence