"The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards."
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"Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.“
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"Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women."
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"Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace."
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"One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits."
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"The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies."
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"When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
-John Keats
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
-Dalai Lama
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
-Dalai Lama
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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