Thank you very much, Gertrude Mongella, for your dedicated work that has brought us to this point, distinguished delegates, and guests: 非常感谢格特鲁德·蒙盖拉，感谢你为我们走到今天所做的不懈努力，尊敬的各位代表和来宾：
I would like to thank the Secretary General for inviting me to be part of this important United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. This is truly a celebration, a celebration of the contributions women make in every aspect of life: in the home, on the job, in the community, as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, learners, workers, citizens, and leaders. 我要感谢秘书长邀请我参加这次重要的联合国第四届世界妇女大会。这确实是一个庆典，庆祝妇女在生活的各个方面所做出的贡献：在家庭、在工作、在社区，作为母亲、妻子、姐妹、女儿、学习者、工作者、公民和领导者。
It is also a coming together, much the way women come together every day in every country. We come together in fields and factories, in village markets and supermarkets, in living rooms and board rooms. Whether it is while playing with our children in the park, or washing clothes in a river, or taking a break at the office water cooler, we come together and talk about our aspirations and concern. And time and again, our talk turns to our children and our families. 这也是一次相聚，就像各国妇女每天相聚一样。我们在田间和工厂相聚，在乡村市场和超市相聚，在客厅和会议室相聚。无论是在公园里与孩子们玩耍，还是在河边洗衣服，或是在办公室饮水机旁休息，我们都相聚在一起，谈论我们的愿望和关切。一次又一次，我们的话题转向我们的孩子和家庭。
However different we may appear, there is far more that unites us than divides us. We share a common future, and we are here to find common ground so that we may help bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world, and in so doing bring new strength and stability to families as well. 无论我们看起来有多么不同，团结我们的力量远远大于分裂我们的力量。我们共享一个共同的未来，我们在这里寻找共同点，以便帮助世界各地的妇女和女孩获得新的尊严和尊重，并因此为家庭带来新的力量和稳定。
By gathering in Beijing, we are focusing world attention on issues that matter most in our lives -- the lives of women and their families: access to education, health care, jobs and credit, the chance to enjoy basic legal and human rights and to participate fully in the political life of our countries. 通过在北京相聚，我们将世界的注意力集中在我们生活中最重要的问题上——妇女和她们家庭的生活：获得教育、医疗保健、工作和信贷的机会，享有基本法律和人权的机会，以及充分参与我们国家政治生活的机会。
There are some who question the reason for this conference. Let them listen to the voices of women in their homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces. There are some who wonder whether the lives of women and girls matter to economic and political progress around the globe. Let them look at the women gathered here and at Huairou -- the homemakers and nurses, the teachers and lawyers, the policymakers and women who run their own businesses. It is conferences like this that compel governments and peoples everywhere to listen, look, and face the world's most pressing problems. 有些人质疑这次大会的理由。让他们听听妇女在家庭、社区和工作场所的声音。有些人想知道妇女和女孩的生活是否对全球的经济和政治进步重要。让他们看看聚集在这里和怀柔的妇女们——家庭主妇和护士、教师和律师、政策制定者和经营自己企业的妇女们。正是这样的会议迫使各国政府和人民倾听、观察并面对世界上最紧迫的问题。
Wasn't it after all -- after the women's conference in Nairobi ten years ago that the world focused for the first time on the crisis of domestic violence? 毕竟，十年前在内罗毕举行的妇女大会之后，世界不是第一次关注家庭暴力危机了吗？
Earlier today, I participated in a World Health Organization forum. In that forum, we talked about ways that government officials, NGOs, and individual citizens are working to address the health problems of women and girls. Tomorrow, I will attend a gathering of the United Nations Development Fund for Women. There, the discussion will focus on local -- and highly successful -- programs that give hard-working women access to credit so they can improve their own lives and the lives of their families. 今天早些时候，我参加了世界卫生组织的论坛。在那个论坛上，我们讨论了政府官员、非政府组织和公民个人如何努力解决妇女和女孩的健康问题。明天，我将参加联合国妇女发展基金的会议。在那里，讨论将集中在当地非常成功的项目上，这些项目为努力工作的妇女提供信贷，使她们能够改善自己和家人的生活。
What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well. That is why every woman, every man, every child, every family, and every nation on this planet does have a stake in the discussion that takes place here. 我们在世界各地学到的是，如果妇女健康且受过教育，她们的家庭就会繁荣。如果妇女免受暴力，她们的家庭就会繁荣。如果妇女有机会作为社会中充分和平等的伙伴工作和赚钱，她们的家庭就会繁荣。当家庭繁荣时，社区和国家也会繁荣。这就是为什么这个星球上的每一位妇女、每一位男子、每一个孩子、每一个家庭和每一个国家都与这里发生的讨论息息相关。
Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I've had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world. 在过去25年里，我一直在坚持不懈地致力于妇女、儿童和家庭问题。在过去两年半里，我有机会更多地了解我国和世界各地妇女面临的挑战。
I have met new mothers in Indonesia, who come together regularly in their village to discuss nutrition, family planning, and baby care. I have met working parents in Denmark who talk about the comfort they feel in knowing that their children can be cared for in safe, and nurturing after-school centers. I have met women in South Africa who helped lead the struggle to end apartheid and are now helping to build a new democracy. 我在印度尼西亚见过新妈妈们，她们定期在村庄里聚会，讨论营养、计划生育和婴儿护理。我在丹麦见过在职父母，他们说知道孩子可以在安全、有爱心的课后中心得到照顾，感到很安心。我在南非见过帮助领导结束种族隔离斗争并现在帮助建设新民主的妇女们。
I have met with the leading women of my own hemisphere who are working every day to promote literacy and better health care for children in their countries. I have met women in India and Bangladesh who are taking out small loans to buy milk cows, or rickshaws, or thread in order to create a livelihood for themselves and their families. I have met the doctors and nurses in Belarus and Ukraine who are trying to keep children alive in the aftermath of Chernobyl. 我见过我们半球的杰出妇女们，她们每天都在努力促进本国儿童的识字和更好的医疗保健。我在印度和孟加拉国见过妇女们，她们小额贷款购买奶牛、人力车或线，为自己和家人创造生计。我见过白俄罗斯和乌克兰的医生和护士们，他们在切尔诺贝利事故后努力让孩子们活下去。
The great challenge of this conference is to give voice to women everywhere whose experiences go unnoticed, whose words go unheard. Women comprise more than half the world's population, 70% of the world's poor, and two-thirds of those who are not taught to read and write. We are the primary caretakers for most of the world's children and elderly. Yet much of the work we do is not valued -- not by economists, not by historians, not by popular culture, not by government leaders. 这次大会的巨大挑战是让世界各地的妇女发出声音，她们的经历无人知晓，她们的话语无人倾听。妇女占世界人口的一半以上，占世界贫困人口的70%，占未受教育人口的三分之二。我们是世界上大多数儿童和老年人的主要照顾者。然而，我们所做的许多工作没有得到重视——没有被经济学家重视，没有被历史学家重视，没有被流行文化重视，没有被政府领导人重视。
At this very moment, as we sit here, women around the world are giving birth, raising children, cooking meals, washing clothes, cleaning houses, planting crops, working on assembly lines, running companies, and running countries. Women also are dying from diseases that should have been prevented or treated. They are watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty and economic deprivation. 就在此时此刻，当我们坐在这里时，世界各地的妇女正在分娩、抚养孩子、做饭、洗衣服、打扫房子、种植庄稼、在装配线上工作、经营公司和治理国家。妇女也正在死于本应预防或治疗的疾病。她们眼睁睁地看着自己的孩子因贫困和经济剥夺造成的营养不良而死去。
They are being denied the right to go to school by their own fathers and brothers. They are being forced into prostitution, and they are being barred from the bank lending offices and banned from the ballot box. 她们被自己的父亲和兄弟剥夺了上学的权利。她们被迫卖淫，被禁止进入银行贷款办公室，被剥夺投票权。
Those of us who have the opportunity to be here have the responsibility to speak for those who could not. As an American, I want to speak for those women in my own country, women who are raising children on the minimum wage, women who can't afford health care or child care, women whose lives are threatened by violence, including violence in their own homes. 我们这些有机会来到这里的人有责任为那些无法来到这里的人发声。作为美国人，我想为我国的那些妇女发声：靠最低工资抚养孩子的妇女，负担不起医疗保健或儿童保育的妇女，生命受到暴力威胁的妇女，包括在自己家中受到暴力威胁的妇女。
I want to speak up for mothers who are fighting for good schools, safe neighborhoods, clean air, and clean airwaves; for older women, some of them widows, who find that, after raising their families, their skills and life experiences are not valued in the marketplace; for women who are working all night as nurses, hotel clerks, or fast food chefs so that they can be at home during the day with their children; and for women everywhere who simply don't have time to do everything they are called upon to do each and every day. 我想为那些为好学校、安全社区、清洁空气和干净电波而奋斗的母亲们发声；为那些年长妇女，其中一些是寡妇，她们发现养育家庭后，自己的技能和生活经验在市场上没有价值；为那些整夜工作的妇女——护士、酒店职员或快餐厨师，这样她们白天就能在家陪伴孩子；为世界各地那些根本没有时间完成每天被要求做的所有事情的妇女们发声。
Speaking to you today, I speak for them, just as each of us speaks for women around the world who are denied the chance to go to school, or see a doctor, or own property, or have a say about the direction of their lives, simply because they are women. The truth is that most women around the world work both inside and outside the home, usually by necessity. 今天站在这里，我为她们发声，就像我们每个人都为世界各地的妇女发声一样，她们仅仅因为是女性就被剥夺了上学、看医生、拥有财产或决定自己生活方向的机会。事实是，世界上大多数妇女通常出于必要，既要在家里工作，也要在外面工作。
We need to understand there is no one formula for how women should lead our lives. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her own God-given potential. But we must recognize that women will never gain full dignity until their human rights are respected and protected. 我们需要理解，妇女应该如何生活没有一个公式。这就是为什么我们必须尊重每个妇女为自己和家庭所做的选择。每个妇女都应该有机会实现自己天赋的潜能。但我们必须认识到，除非妇女的人权得到尊重和保护，否则她们永远不会获得充分的尊严。
Our goals for this conference, to strengthen families and societies by empowering women to take greater control over their own destinies, cannot be fully achieved unless all governments -- here and around the world -- accept their responsibility to protect and promote internationally recognized human rights. 我们这次大会的目标是通过赋予妇女更大的控制权来加强家庭和社会，但除非所有政府——这里和世界各地的政府——都承担起保护和促进国际公认的人权的责任，否则这些目标无法完全实现。
The international community has long acknowledged and recently reaffirmed at Vienna that both women and men are entitled to a range of protections and personal freedoms, from the right of personal security to the right to determine freely the number and spacing of the children they bear. No one should be forced to remain silent for fear of religious or political persecution, arrest, abuse, or torture. 国际社会早就承认并最近在维也纳重申，妇女和男子都有权享有一系列保护和个人自由，从人身安全权到自由决定生育数量和间隔的权利。任何人都不应因为害怕宗教或政治迫害、逮捕、虐待或酷刑而被迫保持沉默。
Tragically, women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated. Even now, in the late 20th century, the rape of women continues to be used as an instrument of armed conflict. Women and children make up a large majority of the world's refugees. And when women are excluded from the political process, they become even more vulnerable to abuse. I believe that now, on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break the silence. It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and for the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights. 可悲的是，妇女往往是人权受到侵犯的人。即使在20世纪末的今天，强奸妇女仍然被用作武装冲突的工具。妇女和儿童占世界难民的绝大多数。当妇女被排除在政治进程之外时，她们更容易受到虐待。我相信，在新千年即将到来之际，是时候打破沉默了。是时候让我们在北京说出，让世界听到，将妇女权利与人权分开讨论不再是可接受的。
These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly: 这些虐待之所以持续存在，是因为长期以来，妇女的历史就是沉默的历史。即使在今天，仍有人试图让我们沉默。但这次大会和怀柔妇女们的声音必须被响亮而清晰地听到：
It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. 仅仅因为是女孩就被剥夺食物、溺水、窒息或打断脊椎，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated. 妇女和女孩因人类的贪婪而被卖入卖淫的奴役——而用来为这种做法辩护的种种理由不应再被容忍，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small. 妇女因为嫁妆被认为太少而被浇上汽油、点燃并烧死，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war. 妇女在自己的社区被强奸，成千上万的妇女被强奸作为战争策略或战利品，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes by their own relatives. 在世界范围内，14至44岁妇女死亡的主要原因是她们在自己家中受到亲属的暴力侵害，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation. 年轻女孩因痛苦和有辱人格的女性生殖器切割习俗而遭受虐待，这是对人权的侵犯。
It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will. 妇女被剥夺规划自己家庭的权利，包括被迫堕胎或被强制绝育，这是对人权的侵犯。
If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard. 如果这次大会有一个信息能够回响，那就让它是：人权就是妇女权利，妇女权利就是人权，永远如此。让我们不要忘记，这些权利包括言论自由权——以及被倾听的权利。
Women must enjoy the rights to participate fully in the social and political lives of their countries, if we want freedom and democracy to thrive and endure. It is indefensible that many women in nongovernmental organizations who wished to participate in this conference have not been able to attend -- or have been prohibited from fully taking part. 如果我们希望自由和民主蓬勃发展并持久，妇女必须享有充分参与本国社会和政治生活的权利。许多希望参加这次大会的非政府组织妇女未能出席——或被禁止充分参与，这是不可辩护的。
Let me be clear. Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means respecting the views of those who may disagree with the views of their governments. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of the peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions. 让我说清楚。自由意味着人民有公开集会、组织和辩论的权利。这意味着尊重那些可能不同意其政府观点的人的观点。这意味着不会因为公民和平表达自己的想法和意见而将他们与亲人分离、监禁他们、虐待他们或剥夺他们的自由或尊严。
In my country, we recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of Women's Suffrage. It took 150 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence for women to win the right to vote. It took 72 years of organized struggle, before that happened, on the part of many courageous women and men. It was one of America's most divisive philosophical wars. But it was a bloodless war. Suffrage was achieved without a shot being fired. 在我国，我们最近庆祝了妇女选举权75周年。在美国独立宣言签署150年后，妇女才赢得投票权。在那之前，许多勇敢的妇女和男子进行了72年的有组织斗争。这是美国最具分裂性的哲学战争之一。但这是一场不流血的战争。选举权是在没有开一枪的情况下实现的。
But we have also been reminded, in V-J Day observances last weekend, of the good that comes when men and women join together to combat the forces of tyranny and to build a better world. We have seen peace prevail in most places for a half century. We have avoided another world war. But we have not solved older, deeply-rooted problems that continue to diminish the potential of half the world's population. 但在上周末的对日胜利纪念日活动中，我们也被提醒，当男女共同努力对抗暴政力量并建设更美好世界时，会带来多大的好处。我们看到和平在大多数地方持续了半个世纪。我们避免了另一场世界大战。但我们还没有解决那些持续削弱世界一半人口潜力的更古老、根深蒂固的问题。
Now it is the time to act on behalf of women everywhere. If we take bold steps to better the lives of women, we will be taking bold steps to better the lives of children and families too. Families rely on mothers and wives for emotional support and care. Families rely on women for labor in the home. And increasingly, everywhere, families rely on women for income needed to raise healthy children and care for other relatives. 现在是为世界各地的妇女采取行动的时候了。如果我们采取大胆步骤改善妇女的生活，我们也将采取大胆步骤改善儿童和家庭的生活。家庭依靠母亲和妻子获得情感支持和照顾。家庭依靠妇女承担家务劳动。而且在世界各地，越来越多的家庭依靠妇女赚取收入来养育健康的孩子和照顾其他亲属。
As long as discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace everywhere in the world, as long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled, subjected to violence in and outside their homes -- the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized. 只要歧视和不平等在世界各地司空见惯，只要女孩和妇女被低估、吃得更少、最后才吃、过度劳累、报酬过低、得不到教育、在家内外遭受暴力——人类家庭创造和平繁荣世界的潜力就无法实现。
Let this conference be our -- and the world's -- call to action. Let us heed that call so we can create a world in which every woman is treated with respect and dignity, every boy and girl is loved and cared for equally, and every family has the hope of a strong and stable future. That is the work before you. That is the work before all of us who have a vision of the world we want to see -- for our children and our grandchildren. 让这次大会成为我们——以及世界——的行动号召。让我们响应这一号召，以便我们能够创造一个每个妇女都受到尊重和尊严对待的世界，每个男孩和女孩都得到平等的爱和关怀的世界，每个家庭都有希望拥有强大稳定未来的世界。这是你们面前的工作。这是我们所有对我们希望看到的世界有愿景的人面前的工作——为了我们的孩子和孙辈。
The time is now. We must move beyond rhetoric. We must move beyond recognition of problems to working together, to have the common efforts to build that common ground we hope to see. 时间就是现在。我们必须超越言辞。我们必须超越对问题的认识，共同努力，共同努力建立我们希望看到的共同点。
God's blessing on you, your work, and all who will benefit from it. 愿上帝保佑你们、你们的工作以及所有将从中受益的人。
Godspeed and thank you very much. 祝你们一路平安，非常感谢。