Democracy depends on the emancipation of women: "the exclusion of women from decision-making processes makes democracy imperfect" while their participation strengthens it.
This is the message launched by Kamal Harris on her debut at the UN, where she spoke with a video message to the 65th commission on the state of women.
"Democracy requires constant vigilance, constant improvement. It is a work in progress and today we know that it is increasingly under stress," says the American vice president, observing progress for women in the United States but warning: "We can't take them for granted. And we can't do it especially now." Harris cites Covid as a threat to women everywhere and recalls the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, who said "without equality there can be no democracy". In other words, Harris explains, "the status of women is the status of democracy."