I Am A Woman With A Calling

In Some Places Women Have All The Rights They Deserve And In Others There Are Big Restrictions - In Some Countries They Even Mutilate Women.

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.

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.

My Father Respected And Admired My Mother And Was A Person Who Was Always Standing By My Side, Encouraging Me To Do More And Believed In My Capacity. So In That Sense, My Own Experience Was Very Good In Becoming An Empowered Woman. From Early On, I Carried That Strong Message: 'you Can Do It.' So I Never Had Any Doubt That Women Can Do A Lot.