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Human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman delivered a powerful address at the EqualVoice Summit 2025, urging governments, institutions, and media to embrace gender equality as a transformative force for democracy and development.
Speaking at the event hosted in Poland’s capital, Karman — head and founder of Women Journalists Without Chains — stressed that equality does not mean erasing differences between men and women, but ensuring equal rights, opportunities, and dignity. She warned that half of society cannot remain excluded from public life due to inherited beliefs or political and economic interests.
Karman highlighted persistent global challenges: wage gaps, domestic violence, and harassment in Western societies, alongside compounded struggles in the Middle East under authoritarian regimes and occupation. She argued that true strength today lies not in military power or resources, but in human capital and inclusive participation.
She pointed to evidence that countries integrating women into parliaments, governments, and civil society enjoy greater stability and peace, while exclusion undermines sustainable development. Karman criticized the absence of women in peace negotiations, saying “a peace table without women is not a table for peace, but for a new war.”
Her remarks also called on media outlets to portray women of the Global South as leaders rather than victims, and she urged Europe to recommit to equality across political, economic, social, and environmental dimensions. “There is no dignity without equality, no democracy without equality, and no future for Europe without equality,” she concluded.
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