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Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva: Nowadays it happens more often that women become positions of managers and leaders. They are strong women. There are many of them, also in Russia now the mayor of St Petersburg is an active, attractive, intelligent, educated woman. I have many friends like [Assata/Hafsata Biola] and the Nigerian activist Bibi Russel. Women have a great potential. They have a great inner emotional intuition. Woman gives life, she cannot be a killer, this is against the nature, and she is mother. She thinks and tries to act in a way which would keep and develop, teach and improve that unity, and it does not matter whether she is a leader of a state, or is managing some huge organisation or system. I think, it was false, that men had a dominant role in previous centuries and created a number of rules, why a woman couldn’t occupy a leading position. I have my experience too. I am a woman, and I have a high position. Journalists call me “the queen of clowns”. It is a hard profession, and to achieve results is not easy. That’s why it is a difficult question. It is difficult to respond. |
Abbas Beydoun: ٌReligions and tradition are not based on human rights. Human rights are relatively a new creation which contradicts the religions and the known systems in the world. Human rights are now the current and human religion which has more respect than any other religion or tradition they should have the priority. So, I think Human rights are more valuable than any other system. |
Alvaro Restrepo: Once again we talk about the subject of gender or the subject of the inbalance which exists between men and women in our society. I think that the moment has come in which women should take a position of power in society. They should not be a companion of the shadow [] of men but, if we can say it like this, they should be a bearer of other forms of sensibility. All human beings together are men and women. As men and women we participate on the essence of those who begetted us. We cannot talk about men on the one side and about women on the other side. We are all men and women and we are an unity. And I believe that only until a certain moment the masculine sensibility []. And I think that the moment has to come in which the sensibility of the woman equips itself with masculine energy. This energy has until now always ruled the world and has led women to the point where they are today. I am working with children and adolescents in Cartagena de Indias in Colombia and sometimes we are confronted with questions of what feminine sensibility is good for in processes of education. And I believe that men as children, adolescensts and guys are much more men in the sense of the word when they let go their feminine sensiblity, their feminine side and their refinement of their feelings. Like women when they let go their power, their integrity... |
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Andries Botha: This is a difficult question to answer because it is a statement and of course it is entirely true. It cannot be, we certainly cannot devolve our systems of wisdom effectively and totally integrate woman fully. As I have already said, it’s a very problematic issue when 50% of our humanity is devalued. |
Angaangaq Lyberth: David, I’m so happy that you asked the question. Remember I told you the other day that about the feather I’m holding? It’s an eagle in whose presence I am can never soar unless the wings are both equal. Nor can the airplane soar when the wings are not equal. That’s the same thing with the human family. The human cannot soar to new heights within unless both wings are equal. That means me and my wife [Sinnika] we cannot soar as a couple and bring our family to new heights we are always seeking unless we both are equal. So it goes for everyone else around. And look at all these beautiful people who feel themselves so important but forgetting the other side. I can never do what I do without complete love and support of my wife. And thus I have been able to succeed to sit in this particular gathering today. But have I done a good enough job? I pray to the Great One I have. I really worked hard to make sure that me and my family be equal, me and my wife be equal so that we can both soar like an eagle and come to new heights within. And that is the question of the world. Why we have no succeeded so far. Because we don’t have that balance, and we don’t have that harmony. Do you know how many women will be destroyed today? Verbally? Just alone verbally, let alone physically, let alone emotionally, let alone spiritually? And then in the west we call it simply being civilized when the very greatest crime we do is that we put down the women rather than lifting them up to new heights as an equal to ourselves. I pray that I have answered your question, David. Thank you for posing it. |
Anthony Arnove: I think the question has to be interrogated in terms of what the question of feminine values means, because I think part of the problem with [formal] sexes in this developed capitalism historically is that it has tended to create an essentialist idea about what is male or what is female in our society. And those ideas can actually reinforce sexes and can actually reinforce women’s exclusion and women’s oppression. And so, the idea that there is something natural or inherent in women, believe them to caring or more sharing and more humane than men is really a problematic and sexist idea. So, it’s important I think to get, you know, the assumptions of the question. But, understanding the concern that the question is raising, which I think is an important one, we have to ask the question of why more women are in positions of leadership and power. But, if it’s a question of just women gaining positions of leadership and power on the basis that the existing system operates, we have examples of that not being a process that leads to change, not being a process that leads to liberation. So, we have very clear recent examples of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of England or Condoleeza Rice today as the Secretary of State in the United States, or Madeleine Albright before her in that role. Women who use their power not to advance interest of other women or people, but in fact, carry out policies that were oppressive to women in the case of Condoleeza Rice and Madeleine Albright in particular to Iraqi women. And in the case of Margaret Thatcher, so many women in Britain and around the world just suffered as a result of their policies. So, I don’t believe that if women came into positions of more power, naturally the system would evolve to have less warlike, less conflictual qualities. But, if we do want to see that brought about, if we do want to see a kind of change, I think we have to show that men and women together fighting for a society is based on different values. |
Anuradha Koirala: Human society can be in balance and harmony if women are given equal status as men. Human society can be in balance and harmony if women are given equal status as men. So as to create a better world, equalize the status of woman and man, and then we have to give opportunity to women from the grassroot to the high level, and to the educated onesin all the sectors – to participate in all the sectors so as to empower them, and be in balance and harmony. |