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Address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

在联合国妇女地位委员会的讲话

delivered 12 March 2010, United Nations, New York, NY

2010 年 3 月 12 日交付，纽约联合国

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Thank you.

谢谢你。

Thank you to Ambassador Alex Wolff and to our U.S. Mission here at the United Nations.

感谢亚历克斯·沃尔夫大使和美国驻联合国代表团。

And it�s wonderful to be back at the United Nations for this occasion.

很高兴能在这个场合回到联合国。

I want to thank the deputy secretary general for being with us.

我要感谢副秘书长与我们在一起。

I�m very pleased that my friend and someone who once represented the United States here before becoming Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, could join us; members of the diplomatic corps and representatives to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women; many of my friends, elected officials from New York, including Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who has been recognized and who is a great champion of women�s rights and responsibilities -- and to all of you.

我很高兴我的朋友玛德琳·奥尔布赖特（Madeleine Albright）能够加入我们，她是在成为国务卿之前曾代表美国的人。外交使团成员和联合国妇女地位委员会代表；我的许多朋友，来自纽约的民选官员，包括国会女议员卡罗琳·马洛尼，她受到了认可，是妇女权利和责任的伟大捍卫者——以及你们所有人。

This final day of the 54 th session of the UN Commission brings to a close a week of a lot of activity, and it reminds us of the work that still lies ahead.

联合国委员会第 54 届会议的最后一天结束了一周的大量活动，它提醒我们仍然需要开展的工作。

Fifteen years ago, delegates from 189 countries met in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women.

十五年前，来自189个国家的代表齐聚北京，出席第四次世界妇女大会。

It was a call to action -- a call to the global community to work for the laws, reforms, and social changes necessary to ensure that women and girls everywhere finally have the opportunities they deserve to fulfill their own God-given potentials and contribute fully to the progress and prosperity of their societies.

这是一项行动呼吁，呼吁国际社会致力于制定必要的法律、改革和社会变革，以确保世界各地的妇女和女童最终拥有应得的机会，发挥上帝赋予她们的潜力，并为社会的进步和繁荣做出充分贡献。

For many of us in this room today, that was a call to action that we have heeded.

对于今天在座的许多人来说，这是我们已经注意到的行动号召。

I know some of you have made it the cause of your life.

我知道你们中的一些人已将其作为自己一生的事业。

You have worked tirelessly, day in and day out, to translate those words into realities.

你们日复一日地孜孜不倦地工作，将这些话变成现实。

And we have seen the evidence of such efforts everywhere.

我们到处都看到了这种努力的证据。

In South Africa, women living in shanty towns came together to build a housing development outside Cape Town all on their own, brick by brick.

在南非，居住在棚户区的妇女聚集在一起，在开普敦郊外一砖一瓦地自行建造住房开发项目。

And today, their community has grown to more than 50,000 homes for low income families, most of them female-headed.

如今，他们的社区已发展到拥有 50,000 多套低收入家庭住房，其中大多数为女性户主。

In Liberia, a group of church women began a prayer movement to stop their country�s brutal civil war.

在利比里亚，一群教会妇女发起了一场祈祷运动，以制止该国残酷的内战。

It grew to include thousands of women who helped force the two sides to negotiate a peace agreement.

其中包括数千名妇女，她们帮助迫使双方谈判达成和平协议。

And then, those women helped elect Ellen Johnson Sirleaf president, the first woman to lead an African nation.

然后，这些女性帮助埃伦·约翰逊·瑟利夫当选总统，她是第一位领导非洲国家的女性。

In the United States, a young woman had an idea for a website where anyone could help a small business on the other side of the world get off the ground.

在美国，一位年轻女士想到了创建一个网站的想法，任何人都可以帮助世界另一端的小企业起步。

And today, the organization she co-founded, Kiva, has given more than $120 million in microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, 80 percent of them women.

如今，她与他人共同创立的组织 Kiva 已向发展中国家的企业家提供了超过 1.2 亿美元的小额贷款，其中 80% 是女性。

So as we meet here in New York, women worldwide are working hard to do their part to improve the status of women and girls.

因此，当我们在纽约相聚时，世界各地的女性都在努力尽自己的一份力量，以提高妇女和女孩的地位。

And in so doing, they are also improving the status of families, communities, and countries.

通过这样做，他们还改善了家庭、社区和国家的地位。

They are running domestic violence shelters and fighting human trafficking.

他们经营家庭暴力庇护所并打击人口贩运。

They are rescuing girls from brothels in Cambodia and campaigning for public office in Kuwait.

他们正在柬埔寨的妓院中解救女孩，并在科威特竞选公职。

They are healing women injured in childbirth in Ethiopia, providing legal aid to women in China, and running schools for refugees from Burma.

他们正在治疗埃塞俄比亚因分娩受伤的妇女，为中国妇女提供法律援助，并为来自缅甸的难民开办学校。

They are rebuilding homes and re-stitching communities in the aftermath of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.

海地和智利地震后，他们正在重建家园并重建社区。

And they are literally leaving their marks on the world.

他们确实在世界上留下了自己的印记。

For example, thanks to the environmental movement started by Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, 45 million trees are now standing tall across Kenya, most of them planted by women.

例如，由于诺贝尔奖获得者旺加里·马塔伊发起的环保运动，肯尼亚各地现在有 4500 万棵树高高耸立，其中大部分是由妇女种植的。

And even young girls have been empowered to stand up for their rights in ways that were once unthinkable.

甚至年轻女孩也被赋予权力，以曾经不可想象的方式捍卫自己的权利。

In Yemen, a 10-year-old girl forced to marry a much older man made headlines around the world by marching into court and demanding that she be granted a divorce, which she received.

在也门，一名 10 岁女孩被迫嫁给一名年长得多的男子，她走上法庭要求离婚，并得到了离婚，这成为了世界各地的头条新闻。

And her courage helped to shine a spotlight on the continuing practice of child marriage in that country and elsewhere.

她的勇气帮助人们关注该国和其他地方持续存在的童婚现象。

Now, these are just a few of the stories, and everyone here could stand up and tell even more.

现在，这些只是其中的几个故事，在座的每个人都可以站起来讲述更多的故事。

These are the stories of what women around the world do every day to confront injustice, to solve crises, propel economies, improve living conditions, and promote peace.

这些故事讲述了世界各地的女性每天为对抗不公正、解决危机、推动经济、改善生活条件和促进和平所做的事情。

Women have shown time and again that they will seize opportunities to improve their own and their families� lives.

妇女一再表明她们会抓住机会改善自己和家人的生活。

And even when it seems that no opportunity exists, they still find a way.

即使看起来没有机会，他们仍然会找到方法。

And thanks to the hard work and persistence of women and men, we have made real gains toward meeting the goals set in Beijing.

感谢男女同胞的辛勤工作和坚持，我们在实现北京设定的目标方面取得了实际成果。

Today, more girls are in school.

如今，更多的女孩在上学。

More women hold jobs and serve in public office.

更多女性就业并担任公职。

And as women have gained the chance to work, learn, and participate in their societies, their economic, political, and social contributions have multiplied.

随着女性获得工作、学习和参与社会的机会，她们的经济、政治和社会贡献也成倍增加。

In many countries, laws that once permitted the unequal treatment of women have been replaced by laws that recognize their equality, although for too many, laws that exist on the books are not yet borne out in their daily lives.

在许多国家，曾经允许妇女不平等待遇的法律已被承认妇女平等的法律所取代，尽管对许多国家来说，书面法律尚未在她们的日常生活中得到证实。

But the progress we have made in the past 15 years is by no means the end of the story.

但过去15年我们所取得的进步绝不是故事的结局。

It is, maybe, if we�re really lucky, the end of the beginning.

如果我们真的幸运的话，也许这就是开始的结束。

There is still so much more to be done.

还有很多事情要做。

We have to write the next chapter to fully realize the dreams and potential that we set forth in Beijing.

我们必须谱写新的篇章，充分实现我们在北京提出的梦想和潜力。

Because for too many millions and millions of girls and women, opportunity remains out of reach.

因为对于数以百万计的女孩和妇女来说，机会仍然遥不可及。

Women are still the majority of the world�s poor, the uneducated, the unhealthy, the unfed.

妇女仍然是世界上穷人、未受教育者、不健康者和食不果腹者的大多数。

In too many places, women are treated not as full and equal human beings with their own rights and aspirations, but as lesser creatures undeserving of the treatment and respect accorded to their husbands, their fathers, and their sons.

在太多的地方，妇女没有被视为拥有自己的权利和愿望的完整和平等的人，而是被视为低等生物，不值得她们的丈夫、父亲和儿子受到对待和尊重。

Women are the majority of the world�s farmers, but are often forbidden from owning the land they tend to every day, or accessing the credit they need to invest in those farms and make them more productive.

妇女是世界上农民的大多数，但她们常常被禁止拥有她们每天耕种的土地，或获得投资这些农场并提高其生产力所需的信贷。

Women care for the world�s sick, but women and girls are less likely to get treatment when they are sick.

妇女关心世界上的病人，但妇女和女孩在生病时获得治疗的可能性较小。

Women raise the world�s children, but too often receive inadequate care when they give birth.

妇女抚养着全世界的孩子，但她们在分娩时往往得不到足够的照顾。

And as a result, childbirth remains a leading cause of death and injury to women worldwide.

因此，分娩仍然是全世界妇女死亡和受伤的主要原因。

Women rarely cause armed conflicts, but they always suffer their consequences.

妇女很少引发武装冲突，但她们总是承受其后果。

And when warring sides sit at one table to negotiate peace, women are often excluded, even though it is their future and their children�s future that is being decided.

当交战双方坐在一张桌子上谈判和平时，妇女往往被排除在外，尽管正在决定的是她们及其孩子的未来。

Though many countries have passed laws to deter violence against women, it remains a global pandemic.

尽管许多国家通过了法律来阻止暴力侵害妇女行为，但它仍然是一种全球流行病。

Women and girls are bought and sold to settle debts and resolve disputes.

妇女和女孩被买卖是为了偿还债务和解决纠纷。

They are raped as both a tactic and a prize of armed conflict.

强奸她们既是一种策略，也是武装冲突的战利品。

They are beaten as punishment for disobedience and as a warning to other women who might assert their rights.

她们被殴打是对不服从的惩罚，也是对其他可能维护自己权利的妇女的警告。

And millions of women and girls are enslaved in brothels, forced to work as prostitutes, while police officers pocket bribes and look the other way.

数以百万计的妇女和女孩被奴役在妓院，被迫卖淫，而警察却收受贿赂，却视而不见。

Women may be particularly vulnerable to human rights violations like these.

妇女可能特别容易遭受此类侵犯人权行为。

But we also know that in many places, women now are leading the fight to protect and promote human rights for everyone.

但我们也知道，在许多地方，妇女现在正在领导保护和促进所有人人权的斗争。

With us today are several women I was proud to honor earlier this week at this year�s United States State Department�s International Women of Courage Awards.

今天与我们在一起的几位女性，在本周早些时候举行的今年美国国务院国际女性勇气奖颁奖典礼上，我很自豪地向几位女性授予荣誉。

They have endured isolation and intimidation, violence and imprisonment, and even risked their lives to advance justice and freedom for others.

他们忍受了孤立和恐吓、暴力和监禁，甚至冒着生命危险为他人伸张正义和自由。

And though they may work in lonely circumstances, these women, and those like them around the world, are not alone.

尽管她们可能在孤独的环境中工作，但这些女性以及世界各地像她们一样的人并不孤单。

Let them know that every one of us and the many others whom we represent are standing with them as they wage their lonely but essential efforts on behalf of us all.

让他们知道，我们每一个人以及我们所代表的许多其他人都与他们站在一起，他们为我们所有人做出了孤独但必不可少的努力。

The status of the world�s women is not only a matter of morality and justice.

世界妇女的地位不仅仅是道德和正义的问题。

It is also a political, economic, and social imperative.

这也是政治、经济和社会的当务之急。

Put simply, the world cannot make lasting progress if women and girls in the 21 st century are denied their rights and left behind.

简而言之，如果 21 世纪的妇女和女孩的权利被剥夺并被抛在后面，世界就无法取得持久进步。

The other day I heard The New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, who has done so much to bring to a wide audience the stories of individual women who are working and suffering because of conditions under which they are oppressed.

有一天，我听到了《纽约时报》专栏作家尼克·克里斯托夫的演讲，他为向广大读者讲述了因受到压迫而工作和受苦的女性个体的故事做了很多努力。

And he said, you know, in the 19 th century, the great moral imperative was the fight against slavery.

他说，你知道，在 19 世纪，最伟大的道德责任就是反对奴隶制。

And in the 20 th century, it was the fight against totalitarianism.

20世纪，是反对极权主义的斗争。

And in the 21 st century, it is the fight for women�s equality.

21世纪，这是争取妇女平等的斗争。

He was right, and we must accept -- and promote that fundamental truth.

他是对的，我们必须接受并弘扬这一基本事实。

Now, I know there are those -- hard to believe -- but there are those who still dispute the importance of women to local, national, and global progress.

现在，我知道有些人——难以置信——但仍然有人质疑妇女对地方、国家和全球进步的重要性。

But the evidence is irrefutable.

但证据是无可辩驳的。

When women are free to develop their talents, all people benefit: women and men, girls and boys.

当女性能够自由地发展自己的才能时，所有人都会受益：女性和男性，女孩和男孩。

When women are free to vote and run for public office, governments are more effective and responsive to their people.

当妇女可以自由投票和竞选公职时，政府就会更加有效，对人民的反应也会更加积极。

When women are free to earn a living and start small businesses, the data is clear: they become key drivers of economic growth across regions and sectors.

当女性能够自由谋生并开办小企业时，数据就很清楚：她们成为跨地区和跨行业经济增长的关键驱动力。

When women are given the opportunity of education and access to health care, their families and communities prosper.

当妇女获得教育和医疗保健的机会时，她们的家庭和社区就会繁荣。

And when women have equal rights, nations are more stable, peaceful, and secure.

当妇女享有平等权利时，国家就会更加稳定、和平和安全。

In 1995, in one voice, the world declared human rights are women�s rights and women�s rights are human rights.

1995年，全世界异口同声宣布人权就是女权，女权就是人权。

And for many, those words have translated into concrete actions.

对于许多人来说，这些话语已经转化为具体行动。

But for others they remain a distant aspiration.

但对于其他人来说，它们仍然是一个遥远的愿望。

Change on a global scale cannot and does not happen overnight.

全球范围内的变革不可能也不会在一夜之间发生。

It takes time, patience, and persistence.

这需要时间、耐心和坚持。

And as hard as we have worked these past 15 years, we have more work to do.

尽管我们在过去 15 年里付出了巨大的努力，但我们还有更多的工作要做。

So today, let us renew our commitment to finishing the job.

因此，今天，让我们重申我们完成这项工作的承诺。

And let us intensify our efforts because it is both the right thing to do and it is the smart thing as well.

让我们加紧努力，因为这既是正确的事情，也是明智的事情。

We must declare with one voice that women�s progress is human progress, and human progress is women�s progress once and for all.

我们必须异口同声地宣告，妇女的进步就是人类的进步，人类的进步就是妇女的进步。

This principle was enshrined 10 years ago in Millennium Development Goal Number 3, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

这一原则于 10 年前被写入千年发展目标 3，即促进性别平等和赋予妇女权力。

And that goal is essential for the realization of every other goal.

这个目标对于实现其他所有目标至关重要。

Today, this principle is also at the heart of the foreign policy of the United States.

今天，这一原则也是美国外交政策的核心。

We believe that women are critical to solving virtually every challenge we face as individual nations and as a community of nations.

我们相信，妇女对于解决我们作为单个国家和国际社会所面临的几乎所有挑战都至关重要。

Strategies that ignore the lives and contributions of women have little chance of succeeding.

忽视妇女的生活和贡献的战略几乎没有成功的机会。

So in the Obama Administration, we are integrating women throughout our work around the world.

因此，在奥巴马政府中，我们正在将女性融入到我们在世界各地的工作中。

We are consulting with women as we design and implement our policies.

我们在设计和实施政策时正在咨询女性。

We are taking into greater account how those policies will impact women and girls.

我们正在更多地考虑这些政策将如何影响妇女和女童。

And we are working to identify women leaders and potential leaders around the world to make them our partners and to help support their work.

我们正在努力寻找世界各地的女性领导者和潜在领导者，使她们成为我们的合作伙伴并帮助支持她们的工作。

And we are measuring progress, in part, by how much we improve the conditions of the lives of women and girls.

我们衡量进展的部分标准是我们改善妇女和女孩的生活条件的程度。

This isn�t window dressing, and it�s not just good politics.

这不是粉饰门面，也不仅仅是良好的政治。

President Obama and I believe that the subjugation of women is a threat to the national security of the United States.

奥巴马总统和我认为，对妇女的压制是对美国国家安全的威胁。

It is also a threat to the common security of our world, because the suffering and denial of the rights of women and the instability of nations go hand in hand.

这也是对我们世界共同安全的威胁，因为妇女权利的苦难和剥夺与国家的不稳定是相辅相成的。

The United States is implementing this approach in our strategy in Afghanistan.

美国正在我们的阿富汗战略中实施这一做法。

As I said in London in January at the International Conference on Afghanistan, the women of Afghanistan have to be involved at every step in securing and rebuilding their country.

正如我一月份在伦敦举行的阿富汗问题国际会议上所说，阿富汗妇女必须参与保障和重建国家的每一步。

Our stabilization strategy for both Afghanistan and Pakistan includes a Women�s Action Plan that promotes women�s leadership in both the public and private sectors; increases their access to education, health, and justice; and generates jobs for women, especially in agriculture.

我们针对阿富汗和巴基斯坦的稳定战略包括一项妇女行动计划，该计划旨在促进妇女在公共和私营部门的领导地位；增加他们获得教育、保健和司法的机会；并为妇女创造就业机会，特别是在农业领域。

This focus on women has even been embraced by the United States Military.

这种对女性的关注甚至得到了美国军方的认可。

All-women teams of Marines will be meeting with Afghan women in their homes to assess their needs.

海军陆战队的全部女性队伍将在阿富汗妇女家中与她们会面，评估她们的需求。

Congress has joined this focus as well.

国会也加入了这一焦点。

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under Chairman John Kerry, empowered a subcommittee charged with global women�s issues that recently held hearings on promoting opportunity for Afghan women and girls.

在主席约翰·克里 (John Kerry) 的领导下，参议院外交关系委员会授权一个负责全球妇女问题的小组委员会，该小组委员会最近就促进阿富汗妇女和女童的机会举行了听证会。

History has taught us that any peace not built by and for women is far less likely to deliver real and lasting benefits.

历史告诉我们，任何不是由妇女建立并为妇女建立的和平都不太可能带来真正和持久的利益。

As we have seen from Guatemala to Northern Ireland to Bosnia, women can be powerful peacemakers, willing to reach across deep divides to find common ground.

正如我们从危地马拉、北爱尔兰到波斯尼亚所看到的那样，女性可以成为强大的和平缔造者，愿意跨越深刻的分歧寻找共同点。

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 reflects this principle.

联合国安理会第1325号决议体现了这一原则。

Now, we must work together to render it into action and achieve the full participation of women as equal partners in peace.

现在，我们必须共同努力，将其付诸行动，实现妇女作为平等伙伴充分参与和平。

And as women continue to advocate for peace, even risking their lives to achieve it, many are praying that we will keep the promise we made in Resolution 1888 to take significant steps to end sexual violence against women and children in conflict.

随着妇女继续倡导和平，甚至冒着生命危险去实现和平，许多人祈祷我们能够信守在第 1888 号决议中做出的承诺，采取重大措施制止冲突中针对妇女和儿童的性暴力。

We have begun the process laid out in the resolution.

我们已经开始该决议规定的进程。

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a special representative.

秘书长潘基文任命了一名特别代表。

Now we must press ahead to end forever the evil of rape in conflict, which has caused suffering beyond imagination for victims and their families.

现在，我们必须继续努力，永远结束冲突中强奸的罪恶，这种罪恶给受害者及其家人造成了超乎想象的痛苦。

For the United States, women are also central to our ongoing work to elevate development as a key pillar of our foreign policy alongside diplomacy and defense.

对于美国来说，妇女也是我们正在进行的将发展提升为与外交和国防一样的外交政策关键支柱的工作的核心。

As those who grow the world�s food, collect the water, gather the firewood, wash the clothes, and increasingly, work in the factories, run the shops, launch the businesses, and create jobs, women are powerful forces for any country�s economic growth and social progress.

妇女为世界种植粮食、取水、拾柴、洗衣服，并越来越多地在工厂工作、经营商店、创办企业、创造就业机会，她们是任何国家经济增长和社会进步的强大力量。

So our development strategies must reflect their roles and the benefits they bring.

所以我们的发展战略必须体现它们的作用和带来的好处。

Three major foreign policy initiatives illustrate our commitment.

三项重大外交政策举措体现了我们的承诺。

The first is our Global Health Initiative, a $63 billion commitment to improve health and strengthen health systems worldwide.

第一个是我们的全球健康倡议，这是一项 630 亿美元的承诺，旨在改善全球健康并加强卫生系统。

Improving global health is an enormous undertaking, so we are focusing first on those people whose health has the biggest impact on families and communities -- women and girls.

改善全球健康是一项艰巨的任务，因此我们首先关注那些健康对家庭和社区影响最大的人群——妇女和女童。

We aim to reduce maternal and child mortality and increase access to family planning.

我们的目标是降低孕产妇和儿童死亡率并增加计划生育的机会。

And we especially commend the commission and the UN�s adoption by consensus of the resolution on maternal mortality.

我们特别赞扬委员会和联合国以协商一致方式通过了关于孕产妇死亡率的决议。

We also -- intend to further reduce the numbers of new HIV infections.

我们还打算进一步减少新的艾滋病毒感染人数。

AIDS has now become a woman�s disease, passed from men to women and too often, to children.

艾滋病现在已成为一种女性疾病，从男性传染给女性，而且经常传染给儿童。

Through our Global Health Initiative and our continued work through PEPFAR, we hope to stop that deadly progression by giving women and girls the tools and knowledge they need to protect themselves, and by treating HIV-positive mothers so they are less likely to pass on the disease to their children.

通过我们的全球健康倡议以及通过总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划持续开展的工作，我们希望为妇女和女孩提供保护自己所需的工具和知识，并治疗艾滋病毒呈阳性的母亲，从而降低她们将疾病传染给子女的可能性，从而阻止这种致命的进展。

Our global food security program, which I previewed here at the United Nations last September, is a $3.5 billion commitment to strengthen the world�s food supply, so farmers can earn enough to support their families and food can be available more broadly.

去年 9 月，我在联合国预览了我们的全球粮食安全计划，该计划承诺投入 35 亿美元，以加强世界粮食供应，使农民能够赚到足够的钱养家糊口，并能更广泛地提供粮食。

And women are integral to this mission.

女性是这一使命不可或缺的一部分。

Most of the world�s food is grown, harvested, stored, and prepared by women, often in extremely difficult conditions.

世界上大部分粮食都是由妇女在极其困难的条件下种植、收获、储存和准备的。

They face droughts, floods, storms, pests without the fertilizers or enriched seeds that farmers in wealthy countries use.

他们面临干旱、洪水、风暴和害虫，却没有富裕国家农民使用的化肥或强化种子。

Many consider themselves lucky if they can scratch out a harvest sufficient to feed their children.

许多人认为，如果他们能够获得足够的收成来养活自己的孩子，他们就会觉得自己很幸运。

Giving these women the tools and the training to grow more food and the opportunity to get that food to a market where it can be sold will have a transformative impact on their lives and it will grow the economies of so many countries.

为这些妇女提供种植更多粮食的工具和培训，以及将这些粮食推向市场销售的机会，将对她们的生活产生变革性影响，并将促进许多国家的经济增长。

I have to confess that when we started our Food Security Initiative, I did not know that most food was grown by women.

我必须承认，当我们开始粮食安全倡议时，我并不知道大多数粮食是由妇女种植的。

I remember once driving through Africa with a group of distinguished experts.

我记得有一次和一群杰出的专家开车穿越非洲。

And I saw women working in the fields and I saw women working in the markets and I saw women with wood on their heads and water on their heads and children on their backs.

我看到妇女们在田里干活，我看到妇女们在市场里干活，我看到妇女们头上顶着木头，头上顶着水，背上背着孩子。

And I remarked that women just seem to be working all the time.

我说女性似乎一直在工作。

And one of the economists said, �But it doesn�t count.� I said, �How can you say that?� He said, �Well, it�s not part of the formal economy.� I said, �Well, if every woman who did all that work stopped tomorrow, the formal economy would collapse.�

一位经济学家说，“但这不算数。”我说，“你怎么能这么说？”他说，“好吧，这不是正规经济的一部分。”我说，“好吧，如果每个做所有这些工作的女性明天都停下来，正规经济就会崩溃。”

A third initiative is our government�s response to the challenge of climate change.

第三项举措是我国政府应对气候变化挑战的举措。

In Copenhagen in December, I announced that the United States would work with other countries to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 to address the climate needs of developing countries.

12月在哥本哈根，我宣布美国将与其他国家合作，到2020年每年筹集1000亿美元，以满足发展中国家的气候需求。

The effects of climate change will be felt by us all, but women in developing countries will be particularly hard hit, because as all of the changes of weather go on to produce more drought conditions and more storms and more floods, the women will have to work even harder to produce food and walk even farther to find water safe for drinking.

我们所有人都会感受到气候变化的影响，但发展中国家的妇女将受到特别严重的打击，因为随着天气的所有变化继续产生更多的干旱、更多的风暴和更多的洪水，妇女将不得不更加努力地工作来生产粮食，并走得更远才能找到安全饮用的水。

They are on the front lines of this crisis, which makes them key partners and problem solvers.

他们处于这场危机的前线，这使他们成为重要的合作伙伴和问题解决者。

So we believe we must increase women�s access to adaptation and mitigation technologies and programs so they can protect their families and help us all meet this global challenge.

因此，我们认为，我们必须增加妇女获得适应和缓解技术和计划的机会，以便她们能够保护自己的家庭并帮助我们所有人应对这一全球挑战。

These initiatives amount to more than an assortment of programs designed with women in mind.

这些举措不仅仅是一系列专为女性设计的项目。

They reflect a fundamental shift in U.S. policy, one that is taking place in offices across Washington and in our embassies around the globe.

它们反映了美国政策的根本性转变，这一转变正在华盛顿各地的办事处以及我们在全球各地的大使馆发生。

But we are still called to do more -- every single one of us.

但我们仍然被要求做得更多——我们每一个人。

The Obama Administration will continue to work for the ratification of CEDAW.

奥巴马政府将继续致力于批准《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》。

Now, I don�t have to tell those of you who are Americans how hard this is.

现在，我不必告诉你们美国人这有多难。

But we are determined, because we believe it is past time, to take this step for women in our country and in all countries.

但我们决心为我们国家和所有国家的妇女迈出这一步，因为我们相信现在已经过去了。

Here at the United Nations, a single, vibrant agency dedicated to women -- run by a strong leader with a seat at the secretary general�s table, would help galvanize the greater levels of coordination and commitment that the women of the world deserve.

在联合国，一个致力于妇女事务的单一、充满活力的机构——由一位在秘书长席位上占有一席之地的强有力领导人领导，将有助于激发世界妇女应得的更高水平的协调和承诺。

And as the United Nations strives to better support the world�s women, it would benefit from having more women in more of its leadership positions.

随着联合国努力更好地支持世界各地的妇女，让更多的女性担任更多的领导职务将使联合国受益。

Just as there are talented women working unnoticed in every corner of the world, there are women with great talent and experience whose potential leadership is still largely untapped, and they deserve the chance to serve and lead.

正如世界各个角落都有才华横溢的女性在默默无闻地工作一样，也有一些才华横溢、经验丰富的女性，其潜在的领导能力在很大程度上尚未得到开发，她们应该有机会服务和领导。

The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action was not only a pledge to help women in other lands, it was also a promise by all countries to do more to advance opportunity and equality for our own citizens.

《北京宣言》和《行动纲要》不仅是帮助其他国家妇女的承诺，也是所有国家承诺采取更多措施为本国公民提供机会和平等。

Because in every country on earth, talent is universal, but opportunity is not.

因为在地球上的每个国家，人才是普遍的，但机会却不是。

In my travels across the United States, I�ve met women for whom higher education is a distant dream.

在我的美国旅行中，我遇到了一些女性，她们认为接受高等教育是一个遥远的梦想。

They have the talent, they have the drive, but they don�t have the money.

他们有才华，有干劲，但没有钱。

I�ve met mothers trapped in abusive relationships desperate to escape with their children, but with no means of support.

我遇到过陷入虐待关系的母亲们，她们迫切希望带着孩子逃离，但又没有任何支持。

I�ve met too many women who cannot afford necessary healthcare for themselves and their children.

我见过太多无法为自己和孩子提供必要医疗保健的女性。

And I�ve met girls who have heard their whole lives that they were less than -- less talented, less worthy of respect -- until they eventually came to believe it was true.

我遇到过一些女孩，她们一生都在听别人说自己不如人——才华横溢，不值得尊重——直到她们最终相信这是真的。

So whether we live in New York or New Delhi, Lagos or La Paz, women and girls share many of the same struggles and aspirations.

因此，无论我们生活在纽约、新德里、拉各斯还是拉巴斯，妇女和女孩都有许多相同的挣扎和愿望。

The principle of women�s equality is a simple, self-evident truth, but the work of turning that principle into practice is rarely simple.

妇女平等的原则是一个简单、不言而喻的真理，但将这一原则付诸实践的工作绝非易事。

It takes years and even generations of patient, persistent work, not only to change a country�s laws, but to change its people�s minds, to weave throughout culture and tradition in public discourse and private views the unassailable fact of women�s worth and women�s rights.

需要数年甚至几代人的耐心和坚持不懈的努力，不仅要改变一个国家的法律，还要改变其人民的思想，在公共话语和私人观点中将妇女价值和妇女权利这一不容置疑的事实融入文化和传统之中。

Some of you may have seen the cover of the most recent issue of The Economist.

你们中有些人可能看过最新一期《经济学人》的封面。

If you haven�t, I commend it to you.

如果你还没有，我推荐给你。

And like me, you may do a double-take.

和我一样，你可能会再三考虑。

Because I looked quickly at it and I thought it said �genocide.� And then I looked more carefully at it, and it said �gendercide.� Because it was pointing out the uncomfortable fact that there are approximately 100 million fewer girls than there should be, if one looked at all the population data.

因为我很快地看了它，我认为它说的是“种族灭绝”。然后我更仔细地看了它，它说“性别灭绝”。因为它指出了一个令人不安的事实，即如果查看所有人口数据，女孩的数量比应有的数量少大约一亿。

I was so struck by that: a word that I had never heard before, but which so tragically describes what has gone on, what we have let go on, in our world.

我对此感到非常震惊：这是一个我以前从未听过的词，但它如此悲惨地描述了我们世界上正在发生的事情，我们已经放弃的事情。

My daughter is here with me today -- and being the mother of a daughter is a great inspiration and motivation for caring about the girls of the world.

我的女儿今天和我在一起——作为女儿的母亲对于关心世界上的女孩来说是一个巨大的启发和动力。

And I would hope that we would want not only for our own daughters the opportunities that we know would give them the chance to make the most of their lives, to fulfill that God-given potential that resides within each of us, but that we would recognize doing the same for other daughters of mothers and fathers everywhere would make the world a safer and better place for our own children.

我希望我们不仅希望我们自己的女儿有机会充分利用自己的生活，发挥上帝赋予我们每个人的潜力，而且希望我们认识到，为世界各地父母的其他女儿做同样的事情将使世界对我们自己的孩子来说变得更安全、更美好。

So we must measure our progress not by what we say in great venues like this, but in how well we are able to improve the condition of women�s lives, some near at hand who deserve the opportunities many of us take for granted, some in far distant cities and remote villages -- women we are not likely ever to meet but whose lives will be shaped by our actions.

因此，我们衡量进步的标准不是我们在这样的伟大场所所说的话，而是我们能够在多大程度上改善妇女的生活条件，其中一些妇女就在近处，值得我们许多人认为理所当然的机会，另一些则在遥远的城市和偏远的村庄——我们不太可能见到这些妇女，但我们的行动将塑造她们的生活。

Let us recommit ourselves, as individuals, as nations, as the United Nations, to build upon the progress of the past and achieve once and for all that principle that we all believe in, or we would not be here today.

让我们作为个人、作为国家、作为联合国再次承诺，在过去的进步的基础上再接再厉，一劳永逸地实现我们都相信的原则，否则我们今天就不会在这里。

The rights and opportunities of all women and girls deserve our attention and our support because as they make progress, then the progress that should be the birthright of future generations will be more likely, and the 21 st century will fulfill the promise that we hold out today.

所有妇女和女童的权利和机会值得我们关注和支持，因为随着她们取得进步，子孙后代与生俱来的权利就更有可能取得进步，21世纪也将实现我们今天所做出的承诺。

So let�s go forth and be reenergized in the work that lies ahead.

因此，让我们继续前进，为未来的工作注入新的活力。

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音频 = 不确定。

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