Quotations
We have excerpted highlights from each narrator’s interview. Please click through to read their insightful and inspiring words.
So what you have is, from a demographic paradigm, you shift to a reproductive rights paradigm when you talk about population issues. Not to mention, also, that the Cairo Conference has one chapter totally dedicated to the empowerment of women, that talks about violence against women, it talks about abortion. So, I think maybe Cairo, as my constitution, and the Cairo Programme of Action, and the Cairo Conference were one of the most important moments of my life as an activist and as someone doing advocacy work.
—Jacqueline Pitanguy
