GWL Voices is an organization of women leaders from all regions and backgrounds committed to building a gender-equal international system that effectively responds to today’s challenges of sustainable development, peace, security, and human rights.

“We have to make sure that there really is a choice for all women to choose the lives that they want to lead.”

Helen Clark

Founder

“It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic, and political life.”

Navi Pillay

GWL Voices member

“It is time for governments at all levels, local, state, national, and multinational, to make commitments to translate words in deeds and put in place the policy frameworks necessary to facilitate the unhindered access of women to all opportunities.”

Susana Malcorra

President, Founder

“Either we do something, raise our voices, mobilize, in order to move forward and to once again bring the agenda to the multilateral system as a priority, as unfinished business, as an accelerator to peace and sustainable development, or we just will not live up to the expectations of so many women in the world.”

Irina Bokova

Founder

“We have to make sure that there really is a choice for all women to choose the lives that they want to lead.”

Helen Clark

Founder