President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Saturday, March 27, joined several other leading women personalities from the five continents, particularly from Africa, at the opening in Valencia, Spain, of a two day meeting, which focused on four main issues. The issues are education, health care, female representation in positions of power empowerment and economic development.
"It is, indeed, true that we need the world to be better, as the Meeting's name suggests, and women especially women working together have a vital role to play," Liberian President told the gathering in an opening statement. Such events, the President said, offer the chance for women around the world to reach out to each other, to unite and to be stronger in partnership. The President, said she sees the determination, the potential, the drive of women to improve their lives and the lot of their families, communities and countries, but regretted that such events are needed at all "that the gender that makes up more than half the world's population still must fight for our rights as if we were a minority, rather than that most unusual of phenomena: an oppressed majority."
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