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Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.
Swanee Hunt
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Swanee Hunt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 1
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Swanee Grace Hunt
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Women know what kinds of laws can really be implemented. I loved in the film where the woman was talking to the other women about what it was going to be like when they were married. And she was saying, Now, don't you think that just because the mother gave your husbands that cow that it's just his cow.
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I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.
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I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.
Swanee Hunt
If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women's percentage is in parliament, the more funding there is for education and for health care as compared to buying arms, for example.
Swanee Hunt
I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level.
Swanee Hunt
I'll tell you, when you have wounds that are as deep as were caused by the genocide, the first thing you do is try to create some way to pull the wound together. And it may be artificial until the skin grows back.
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