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Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.

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Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

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

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The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Statesman

Born: February 4th, 1952

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