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• It is always the village women who drive these things

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• Men haven’t changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

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• It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

   

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• The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

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• I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

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• I’m in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

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• Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable… and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you’re never going to defeat this pandemic.

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• I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

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• Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

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• I think when you’ve travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don’t recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level – at community level.

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• The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

   

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• But I don’t want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

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• All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

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• I’m still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

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Birth:	11th November, 1937
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Broadcaster, Diplomat, Leader, Politician

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