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My Top Priority For 2012 Will Be To Make A Renewed Push For Women's Economic Empowerment And Political Participation.

Women's Strength, Women's Industry, Women's Wisdom Are Humankind's Greatest Untapped Resource. The Challenge Then For U.n. Women Is To Show Our Diverse Constituencies How This Resource Can Be Effectively Tapped In Ways That Benefit Us All.

The 2010 Global Gender Gap Report By The World Economic Forum Shows That Countries With Better Gender Equality Have Faster-growing, More Competitive Economies.

We Need To Have A Broad Debate So That The New Chilean Constitution Is Representative Of Everyone. I Am Convinced That It Cannot Just Be Developed By An Expert Group. First, People At All Levels Will Be Given An Opportunity To Provide Input. They Should Be Allowed To Express Their Opinions About The Kind Of Society They Would Like To Live In. That's The Kind Of Open Process I Would Like To See. The Issue At Hand Here Is Finding Unity On The Greater Rules. Afterwards, A Text Will Be Developed And Presented To Parliament.

We Need To Reform The Constitution In Chile. The Current One Was Written And Passed In 1980 During The Dictatorship. Some Changes Were Made After The Return Of Democracy, But Its Origins Remain Illegitimate. Instead Of Continuing To Make Fixes Here And There, We Need To Undertake Fundamental Changes To Our Constitution To Make It Reflect The Reality Of Our Democratic Society.