Quotes from Mahnaz Afkhami

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.