During its chairmanship of the Movement, Egypt seeks to reinforce the Joint Coordinating Committee with the Group of 77 and China.

When that moment came, 20 years ago, for us, the former subjects of the Soviet bureaucracy—students, artists, dissidents, workers, men and women, old and young—it was hardly the end of History, but on the contrary, it was a new beginning of History.

My country celebrates the UN-Women entity as it addresses the position of more than half of humankind in all our countries.

That means 700,000 new jobs every year in Egypt alone. And these jobs shouldn't just be for men. Lets be honest, its not just the men of the region who want a job and a voice. The unemployment rate for Egyptian women is more than three times that for men. And its not only the economy, they are denied the chance to play a fuller role in society, politics and culture too.

All cultures, identities, lives, values and wealth of nations, women, youth, families as well as the wealth of nations are sacrificed to their imperialistic tendencies and their inclination to enslave and captivate others.

Recent experience in the exercise of development activities has strengthened the understanding about the links between development and human rights. The concept of the right to development is gaining in substance and recognition. Moreover, specific areas of development have provided further evidence of the importance of this link. The role of women in development is a pertinent example.

A year ago we had a successful summit on the overview of the Millennium Development Goals. Ukraine is committed to its obligations in achieving national development goals. Among our main priorities are poverty reduction, ensuring quality education, environmental protection, improving health and reducing child mortality, curbing HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, ensuring gender equality

That is the challenge facing the countries concerned and the new social groups that have taken the lead in bringing about change - youth, women, the emerging middle classes and civil society as a whole.

Estonia, therefore, places great hopes on the UN's new gender entity, UN Women, and will continue to insist that the UN as a whole, does its part globally standing up for women's rights. We also expect that UN Women will play an active role in helping to turn the principles of the UN Security Council resolution 1325, “Women, Peace and Security” from paper to reality

Notice, I said people. Not “Men”. Already two and half thousand years ago Aristotle noted that where the state of women is bad “almost half of human life is spoilt.” “This is no less true today and will remain so. The ongoing revolutions could not have occurred and cannot succeed without women.