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Today my nation calls on other nations and Governments to move forward towards a durable tranquillity and peace based on justice and spirituality.

Women like Sakena and Leah and Layma have humbled me and changed me and made me realize that I should not be so quick to jump to assumptions of any kind.

And then you realize that by integrating aspects of tradition and community into their struggles, women like Sakena and Leah and Layma but also women like Sonia Gandhi here in India and Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Shirin Ebadi in Iran are doing something else.