Gender Equality Must Become A Lived Reality.

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.

During My Lifetime, I Realized That Discrimination Was Not Accidental, That There Were Structural Roots And Causes To It. So If We Wanted To Change Women's Lives, We Need To Deal With Those Root Causes.

There Is No City Or Country In The World Where Women And Girls Live Free Of The Fear Of Violence. No Leader Can Claim: This Is Not Happening In My Backyard.

The Challenge Is For Us To Reinvigorate The Relationship With The Chilean People And To Give State Institutions New Legitimacy. But This Is Also A Universal Phenomenon. There's Also Disenchantment With Politics In Europe.

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.