Jenny Shipley Quotes

• Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

  Jenny Shipley

  Decision, Desire, Males

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• Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

  Jenny Shipley

  Courage, Fragile Things, Secure

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• The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered

  Jenny Shipley

  Community, Able, Today

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• Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

  Jenny Shipley

  Equality, Sisterhood, Views

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• I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

  Jenny Shipley

  Assistance, I Can

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• With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

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  Adoption, Community, Messages

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• The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Sky

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• By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

  Jenny Shipley

  Country, Progress, Made

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• It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

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  Country, Ocean, Historical

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• The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

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  Progress, Nuclear, World

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• Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

  Jenny Shipley

  Children, Commitment, Issues

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• The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

  Jenny Shipley

  Home, Decision, Storm

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• On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

  Jenny Shipley

  Needs, Structure, Aspect

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• The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

  Jenny Shipley

  Giving, Independence, Facts

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• Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

  Jenny Shipley

  Organization, Years, Decision

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• New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

  Jenny Shipley

  Taken, Years, Two

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• NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

  Jenny Shipley

  Government, Play, Roles

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• The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

  Jenny Shipley

  Issues, President, Nuclear

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