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Chile Has Changed. The People Have Become More Mature And They Are More Conscious Of Their Rights. They Want To Participate And Have A Say About Things Such As If And Where A Power Plant Can Be Built.

Because I'm A Doctor, I Know When You Have An Injury It Will Heal If It's Clean Enough To Heal; If Your Injury Is Dirty, It Won't Heal. And So When You Are Talking In Societies, We Are Also Talking In Healing Processes, And For A Good Healing Process, You Need To Make Things Right.

There Does Not Have To Be Trade-off Between Growth And Social Protection. A Democracy Does Not Mean Much If It Doesn't Respond To The Needs And Will Of Its People.

People See I Am A Mother And Head Of A Household. Today In Chile, One-third Of Households Are Run By Women. They Wake Up, Take The Children To School, Go To Work. To Them I Am Hope.

In Some Places Women Have All The Rights They Deserve And In Others There Are Big Restrictions - In Some Countries They Even Mutilate Women.