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Morsy was not only Egypt's democratically elected president, he is now emerging as the Arab world's Nelson Mandela... during Morsy's one-year reign, Egypt enjoyed freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate peacefully, and not a single one of his political opponents were jailed.

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[The killing of Gaddafi] means a lot. That means dictatorships is going down and is done, and there are a lot of scenarios for the end of those dictators... In Yemen, we will have our own scenario. We will not go in the direction of violence.

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If you go to the protests now, you will see something you never saw before: hundreds of women. They shout and sing, they even sleep there in tents. This is not just a political revolution, it's a social revolution

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Let us be clear: the Yemeni revolution has already brought internal stability to a state riddled with war and conflict.

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There is a standalone goal, which is goal number two, on the empowerment of girls and women and achieving gender equality. With regards to violence against women, the panel addresses it at length and in an inclusive way... We're hoping that this goal and set of targets will put an end into violence and discrimination against women, empower women, and achieve gender equality and justice and for the better development of our world.

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Since the start of this revolution, we were able to get rid of a lot of the issues and the problems that this regime created.... We have the dream, and we have the ability. And we started to achieve a lot of our goals. And we will not stop here. We will build our country. And we're not only talking about Yemen here. I'm talking about every nation or every people that are looking toward freedom.

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Over the next three years, governments will have to choose whether or not to adopt this new people-centric framework for development. The temptation for political leaders to retreat to a safer, more conventional approach will mean a strong global grassroots campaign will thus be necessary to build pressure for adoption of these groundbreaking and transformative elements recommended in the report.

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We ask our neighbors in Saudi Arabia to stop hindering the rule of law and healthy economic development through the purchase of politicians and tribal leaders.

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The youth are our future, and to change anything in our world going forward we must start with this generation of youth, as they're the new agents of change... In peacebuilding and promoting human rights, the youth are no longer a silent majority, but now they should be an active stakeholder... Youth are bringing to the table great contributions to the peace and state building and are shaping the future to be more peaceful, equal, and prosperous for all.

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Our party needs the youth but the youth also need the parties to help them organise. Neither will succeed in overthrowing this regime without the other. We don't want the international community to label our revolution an Islamic one.

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We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country

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My beliefs were that men and women alike have to be in this struggle together, and we cannot safeguard our country just with one wing... Now our women are the leaders, not only political leaders, but also leaders that lead in every single front, and they are part of the main leaders of the revolution. And therefore, you can see that the rulers are afraid from women.

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We also call upon our Saudi neighbors to let us pursue a democratic path.... In many cases, Yemeni tribal leaders and other prominent individuals have received far more generous aid payments from Riyadh than from the Yemeni government... Saudi interference in Yemen is also motivated by a fear that the Arab Spring... might soon reach Riyadh

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Today we need a concerted international effort that would result in freezing the assets of the ruling family, which are estimated at $10bn.

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... on youth unemployment—governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job.

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We started our struggle from 2005, and... we organized a lot of protests, weekly protests, in a place we called the Square of Liberty... We knew and know that the freedom of speech is the door to democracy and justice.

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