Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Women power is a formidable force. [source]
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Women will not become more empowered merely because we want
them to be, but through legislative changes, increased information, and
redirection of resources. It would be fatal to overlook this issue. [source]
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Girls and women who are denied access to education,
information and real forms of economic, social and political participation are
particularly vulnerable. Some political regimes favour vaccination of young boys
over young girls. It is totally unacceptable and we need to speak out against
such practices. [source]
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Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to
health care. But never have so many been denied access to health. [source]
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We
are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the
world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together
at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor
communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and
consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
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It is simple, really. Human health and the health of
ecosystems are inseparable. [source]
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The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care
givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been
the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
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