In a keynote speech at the Women Deliver conference on 18 July 2023, Graça Machel delivered a rallying call for women’s leadership on the existential threats facing humanity. With women front and centre, equality and justice will be embedded into action, she explains.

Read Graça Machel’s speech

Good afternoon to each and every one of you.

It is an honour to be here, on the African continent, in community with so many advocates for women’s and children’s rights around the world. I am grateful to Women Deliver for convening us around this important topic we are going to discuss this afternoon.

I address us this afternoon in the spirit of The Elders, the group of independent leaders I co-founded in 2007 alongside Nelson Mandela. Many luminaries joined us in this effort, including Desmond Tutu and my sister Mary Robinson, who is here with us today.

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