Hello everyone, 

Dear Friends, Greetings to you, dear friends and colleagues participating in the Washington Conference "Towards Sustainable Peace and Democracy in Yemen" Allow me to welcome you all, and all to remind us to observe all protocols. 

Dear all friends, Let me first express my happiness with this meeting that brings together a number of Nobel Prize laureates in a such wonderful and energetic country with a great capacity for achievement like Korea.

Everything before us today refers to a further retreat from democracy. I won't say that the retreat from democracy across the world began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

I am absolutely thrilled to stand before you today. 17 years have been passed since the International Children’s Peace Prize was launched in 2005 during the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome.

Welcome all of you. It is my pleasure and honor to have this opportunity to talk to you in this important event that seeks to shed light on aspects that may receive little attention from the media and different governments and have an effect on the situation of women within their societies. There is no doubt that a topic like this usually provokes intense debate as a result of conflicting desires and viewpoints.

It would be a kind of misinformation to say that the rise of populist movements in Western democracies is exclusively due to the use of misinformation, or that it is a threat to democracy and not a consequence of the retreat from the democracy and human rights values that have marked Western policies over the past decade. Let ‘s say frankly that the rise of racist populism in the Western countries is attributable to the fact that this phenomenon has not been dealt with as a problem from early on.

The word “WAR” means a lot to us in Yemen. It is linked, in our mind, to many tragedies, pains, and various forms of implications and effects that have turned our life into a nightmare.