"“The most rewarding part of my job is keeping people healthy, young, and performing at the highest level. If someone does have a problem, I listen carefully and do the right tests to make a correct and early diagnosis,” Dr. Lindsey said. “I do a lot of risk mitigation. Let’s figure out what you’re most at risk for in your health. Let’s do everything we can to prevent cancer rather than diagnose it.”"

"UNICEF is deeply grateful to the Japanese Government for its financial support to strengthen Health and WASH programmes for individuals most in need. It will make a critical difference for promoting adolescent health particularly during the COVID-19 recovery period and reduce the risk of WASH-related diseases among vulnerable populations,”"

"We encourage parents and caregivers to support these remote learning opportunities as much as possible, because it is only with your help that, together, we can minimize the negative impact on children during these school closures.”"

"Today marks a significant step forward in our collective commitment to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to thrive. The launch of the Ear and Hearing Care Programme is a testament to the power of partnerships in transforming the lives of children and adolescents with disabilities."

"I am board certified in internal medicine. People are getting good evidence-based medical care here,” Dr. Lindsey said. “I also look at aging not as an inevitability, but as a disease process and one we should be intervening on."

"“Itetero.rw” goes beyond children, offering valuable information for teenagers. Notably, the program has garnered immense popularity, with 6 million viewers on Rwanda Television and 8 million subscribers on YouTube, attesting to its significance in reaching a broad audience."

"“This report’s explicit focus and analysis on proving the business case for investing in childcare services should serve as a useful prompt to encourage private sector companies to rethink the drivers and impacts of these investments from a bottom-line perspective,”"

"“Congratulations to the Government and people of Rwanda upon this historic moment. Children, women, and men all over the country can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that Rwanda has taken its first steps towards recovering from the pandemic,”"

"When they do, and when the workforce responds, private sector and community childcare examples can serve to encourage the public sector to proactively engage in supporting systemic solutions to the childcare crisis.”"

"“I would like to join the Honorable Minister of MIGEPROF to applaud parents and caregivers for being there for their children and taking on the additional roles inflicted upon them by the pandemic,"

"There are already good initiatives happening in the telecommunication and banking sector but the agency is challenging other sectors to come on board to improve the welfare of staff and their children."

"While every New Zealand election is customarily (and also unacceptably) characterised by race-baiting politics and the throwing of whānau Māori under the colonial bus for the sake of majority votes, this year we’ve seen multiple lines crossed that indicate a mainstreaming of extreme, violent anti-Māori rhetoric."

"Ik ben diep verdrietig door het overlijden van mijn dierbare vriend, aartsbisschop Desmond Tutu", schrijft Mabel op de website van Girls Not Brides. "Ik heb de eer en het plezier mogen ervaren om met hem samen te werken. 'Arch' kwam altijd op voor mensen die niet gehoord werden"

"I spend a lot of time dreaming of and trying to imagine a feminist future. My utopia has happy woman."

"If your belief system disagrees with my humanity then we can’t be friends. How can I expect you to love someone you don’t see as a human being?"

"Society has for long dictated what platforms are right for women to express their views on specific issues. This belief is slowly changing as a result of an increasingly boarder blurred global community."

"Colonisation does not uphold itself voluntarily. Like any structure, with time, if neglected, it will begin to crumble."

"In the tens of thousands, New Zealanders are showing up to call for an end to the collective punishment, the indiscriminate killing, the unjust occupation, and to rightfully name these acts for what they are: crimes against humanity."

"The myth of the violent, brutish, immature, dependent warrior race is one such tool, used to hold up the structure of colonisation. It does this by legitimising the need for a parent state to oversee us, correct us, and dominate us. The truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as a genetic disposition towards warfare and violence. There is no “warrior gene”. Conflict was, as with all peoples, just one dimension of our complex reality."

"We are not a warrior race."

"The 2023 New Zealand elections have arguably been the most racialised in our nation’s history."

"The fires of colonization robbed us of so much."

"We are, and always have been, a race of voyagers, scientists, gardeners, lovers, poets, composers, philosophers, artists, orators, mathematicians, dancers, astronomers, builders and healers. We were peacemakers and keepers as much as warriors – and in many cases more so."

"My feminism is rooted in love for Woman and love for myself. Love for humanity as well because feminism for me is directed not just at the ending of sexist oppression, but at ending all oppression including homophobic, transphobic, racist, capitalist oppression, etc."

"Zijn toewijding was cruciaal voor de oprichting van Girls Not Brides. 'Arch' was een altijd gepassioneerd pleitbezorger voor gelijke rechten voor mannen en vrouwen. En hij deed dit altijd met een geweldige combinatie van diep geloof en geweldige humor. Hij zei altijd: 'God is niet gek. God creëerde Eva omdat hij wist dat Adam het in zijn eentje niet zou gaan redden'."

"Feminism to me, is an ideology of love."

"The trope of the savage indigenous man is one that is capitalised upon by media and state in a way that is harmful and diminishing."

"Whereas diverse genders have a home and a history here, on and from this whenua and in this region of the globe – transphobia does not. It was brought here on a boat, along with white supremacy, and is rallying now, alongside its sibling of white supremacy, for its survival."

"In most instances a woman has to get permission from the husband, family and sometimes relatives to contest for a political seat. We are here to give them (women) skills that will enable them compete with men."

"Bullets have no eyes. In the field, bullets would not know if a child was abducted or volunteered for the rebel army. War would destroy all these children."

"Unless the parents practiced forgiveness and sought a peaceful solution to the conflict, they would destroy what they most wanted back."

"We prefer to cling to bitterness, but bitterness is corrosive. Like a container filled with salt, it will destroy everything because the Lord cannot forgive us if we cannot forgive others. Life is wonderful if we let God heal us."

"As a mother, it is not easy to wait for a missing child to return -- it is very hard."

"You cannot put out a fire with petrol."

"It was an honour of the invisible Human Rights Defenders in homes, and public spaces who never have the spot light yet do an incredible job in giving a voice to women and girls."

"I won't back down. I am a politician you can count on."

"It is time for women to add their voices to climate finance, not just that but for them to wake up and begin to benefit from climate finance."

"A society that holds governments to account, and preaches and advocates for its own peace, is what gives me the most hope, and we're starting to see that."

"Peacebuilding is a long-term investment, and we’re just at the beginning"

"Peace is Possible when women have a Power"

"[In Somalia] it’s considered weak or even ungrateful to ‘complain’ or speak of the trauma that one has encountered."

"It's encouraging to see that women are fighting against so many different barriers to participate because they know what their participation means for other girls that are marginalised."

"Instead, people are encouraged to be thankful to have survived and are expected to simply move on"

"There are a lot of young women now occupying spaces and challenging stereotypes every single day, from sport to technology to business to leadership, and all of this is necessary."

"And with more and more women present in these spaces, it is creating an atmosphere and acceptance for more to join as well."

"The concept of mental health and wellbeing are not ones that are mainstreamed, and that's what we are trying to make a culture around – not just for beneficiaries of the different services and programmes that we offer but also for frontline workers"

"They walked so I could run, and I will run so that the next generation of Somalis can soar."

"Over the years it has become very clear to me that a range of actors in Somali society want to sweep sexual and gender-based violence issues under the rug."

"Women human rights defenders in Somalia are reprised against, threatened, unlawfully arrested, privy to sexual and gender-based violence, kidnapped and even killed as a result of their work."

"Human rights, now more than ever, are very much on the political agenda in Somalia. However moving beyond the proverbial international commitments and declarations has not yet been realized."