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We are a society where women, and children by the way, are not safe anywhere. Something absolutely and deeply wrong is happening in our society.

— Graça Machel

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If we are here in solidarity, with this beauty of unity, in our pain, we have to pledge to do something.

A mother in pain: Graça Machel speaks on the gender based violence and xenophobia (2026)

The role tradition has played in the relationship in the family between men and women has been detrimental to women.

Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

Education, particularly for girls, is a catalyst for reducing child and maternal deaths and lifting people out of poverty.

We need to make the message much clearer -- that aid means saving lives, it’s not a luxury.

West must help Africa on poverty, education: Machel (2009)

Tradition has developed into practices which overtime have become beliefs which in essence they put women in a position of inferiority.

Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

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