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Hello.

大家好，

Under-Secretary General, Foreign and Defence Ministers, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
副秘书长、外交部长、国防部长、尊敬的阁下，女士们、先生们：

This is the third UN Defense Peacekeeping Ministerial I have attended, but the first on my home soil. 
这是我参加过的第三次联合国国防维和部长级会议，但在我的家乡却是第一次。

I am very proud to speak here as an American. 
我很自豪能以美国人的身份在这里发言。

I am a patriot. I love my country and I want to see it thrive.  
我是个爱国者。我爱我的国家，我想看到它蓬勃发展。

I also believe in an America that is part of an international community.   
我也相信美国是国际社会的一部分。

Countries working together on an equal footing is how we reduce the risk of conflict. 
国家之间平等合作使冲突风险降低。

It is how we avoid the need to send men and women of our militaries to fight and sacrifice overseas. 
这也极大的避免了我们派遣军队到海外作战和牺牲的必要。

The UN was set up for that purpose. As a way of resolving differences peacefully, supporting each other’s prosperity, and extending universal rights and freedoms. 
联合国就是为此目的而设立的。作为和平解决分歧、支持彼此繁荣、扩大普遍权利和自由的一种方式。

It is in all our interests for the UN to be made effective, brought closer to the lives of citizens, and not ever misused. 
让联合国发挥作用，更紧密的联系人民的生活，并且永远不会被滥用，
着符合我们所有人的利益。

At a deeper level, a country that believes that all men and women are born free and equal cannot be true to itself if it doesn’t defend those principles for all people, wherever they live, regardless their circumstances, and no matter how desperate their struggle. 
从更深层次来看，一个相信所有男女生而自由平等的国家，如果不为所有人捍卫这些原则，无论他们生活在何处，无论他们的处境如何，无论他们的斗争多么绝望，都不可能实现自我。

In fact, our support should be strongest where rights are threatened the most. 
事实上，在权利受到最大威胁的地方，我们的支持应该是最有力的。

We live at a time of blatant disregard for the laws of war that forbid attacks on civilians. 
我们生活在一个公然无视禁止攻击平民的战争法的时代。

Whether it is missile strikes on schools or hospitals, families bombed in their homes, neighbourhoods gassed with chemical weapons, besieged areas deprived of aid, mass rape of women, children and men, we seem incapable of upholding minimum standards of humanity in many parts of the world. 
无论是对学校或医院的导弹袭击，家庭被炸毁，邻居被化学武器毒死，被围困地区被剥夺援助，大规模强奸妇女、儿童和男子，在世界许多地方，我们似乎无法维持人类的最低标准。

That this comes at a time when humankind is richer, and more technologically advanced than ever before, is all the more painful. 
当人类比以往任何时候都更富有、技术更先进的时候，这种情况就会变得更加痛苦。

Eighteen years ago, when I first began working with the UN Refugee Agency, there were just under 20 million displaced people worldwide, and the numbers were falling.  
十八年前，当我第一次开始与联合国难民署合作时，全世界的流离失所者还不到2000万，而且人数还在下降。

Today, there are over 65 million people displaced, and the numbers are rising.  
今天，有超过6500万人流离失所，而且数字还在上升。

More countries are experiencing some form of violent conflict today than any time in the last thirty years. 
今天发生某种形式暴力冲突的国家比过去30年中任何时候都多。

UN peacekeepers now comprise of the second largest group of forces deployed overseas, and are often required to serve where there is little or no peace to be kept.   
联合国维和部队现在是部署在海外的第二大部队，通常需要在几乎没有和平或根本没有和平的地方服役。

Against this backdrop, it is easy to dismiss our institutions as flawed or ineffective. 
在这样的背景下，我们的机构很容易被视为有缺陷或无效。

My hope, instead, is that young people in particular will feel inspired to join the effort to improve them: to join the ‘men and women in the arena’, to paraphrase President Roosevelt, ‘who strive – are striving – to do deeds, and whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood’. 
相反，我的希望是，年轻人尤其应该感到鼓舞，加入到改善他们的生活中去：加入“竞技场中的男女”，用罗斯福总统的话说，“他们努力——正在努力——去做事情，他们的脸上沾满了灰尘、汗水和鲜血”。

In that regard, I want to express my respect for men and women who serve as peacekeepers, and for those who have been killed and injured. 
在这方面，我要表达我对充当维和人员的男女以及那些被杀害和受伤的人的敬意。

The protection of civilians is the primary responsibility of governments. When UN peacekeepers are deployed, it is usually where a government is unable or unwilling to protect civilian life. 
保护平民是政府的首要责任。当联合国维和部队部署时，通常是政府无法或不愿保护平民生命的地方。

Those United Nations missions often represent the last and only hope for millions of people facing daily threats to their safety and their basic rights. 
这些联合国特派团往往是数百万人每天面临安全和基本权利威胁的最后的希望，也是唯一希望。

The need for peacekeeping troops to have the best possible training and equipment and the highest standards of personal conduct becomes obvious when measured against that weighty responsibility. 
当与这项沉重的责任相比，维和部队需要尽可能最好的训练和装备，以及个人行为的最高标准，这一点变得显而易见。

That is why this meeting is so important, because it is in the hands of the governments you represent to enable peacekeeping to live up to its ideals and the needs of our time.   

这就是为什么这次会议如此重要的原因，因为它在你们所代表的政府手中，使维和行动能够实现它的理想和我们这个时代的需要。

So, as you discuss how to strengthen UN peacekeepers and give peacekeepers the capabilities they need to operate in today’s dangerous environments, I ask you to take time to consider the question from the perspective of women. 
所以，在你们讨论如何加强联合国维和部队，并赋予维和部队在当今危险环境中作战所需的能力时，我请你们从妇女的角度来考虑这个问题。

Around the world, there are countless examples of women rising, taking leadership, taking their destiny into their own hands, inspiring us all.   
在世界各地，有无数的妇女崛起、领导、掌握自己的命运、鼓舞我们大家的例子。

But women and girls are still the majority of the victims of war. They are over half of all refugees, and the vast majority of the victims of rape and other sexual and gender-based violence. 
但是妇女和女孩仍然是战争的大多数受害者。他们占所有难民的一半以上，绝大多数是强奸和其他性暴力和性别暴力的受害者。

Women are at the absolute epicenter of modern conflict, in the worst possible sense. But more often than not, they are still on the outside looking in when it comes to [political] politics and decisions about their futures.  
最糟糕的是，女性正处于现代冲突的绝对震中。但通常情况下，当涉及到（政治）政治和他们未来的决定时，他们仍然在外部观望。

If we went by the principle that those affected by a problem should be in charge of determining the solution, then the majority of the world’s peace negotiators, foreign ministers and diplomats would be women. We all know the reality. 
如果我们遵循一个原则，即受问题影响的人应该负责决定解决方案，那么世界上大多数的和平谈判代表、外交部长和外交官都将是女性。我们都知道现实。

In Afghanistan, thousands of women have recently come together in public, risking their lives, to ask that their rights and the rights of their children be guaranteed in peace negotiations that so far they have been allowed no part of. 
在阿富汗，最近有数千名妇女冒着生命危险，公开聚集在一起，要求在和平谈判中保障她们的权利和子女的权利，到目前为止，她们还没有被允许参与和平谈判。

Their stand is inspiring, but it should not be necessary and the international community’s silent response is alarming to say the least. There can be no peace and stability in Afghanistan, or anywhere else in the world, that involves trading away the rights of women. 
他们的立场是鼓舞人心的，但这不应该是必要的，国际社会的沉默反应至少令人担忧，在阿富汗或世界上任何其他地方，都不可能有涉及剥夺妇女权利的和平与稳定。

Worse still, we see impunity for crimes committed against women and girls during conflict, or when women human rights defenders are attacked, or killed, or imprisoned.  
更糟的是，我们看到在冲突期间对妇女和女童犯下的罪行，或妇女人权捍卫者受到攻击、杀害或监禁时不受惩罚。

Too often, whether or not we confront these human rights violations depends not on the law, on universal standards, but on how much our governments think that their business or political interests in that country might be affected.   
通常，我们是否面对这些侵犯人权的行为，并不取决于法律、普遍标准，而是取决于我们的政府认为他们在该国的商业或政治利益可能受到多大的影响。

This is as harmful to our long-term security and stability as it is unacceptable on a human and moral level. 
这对我们的长期安全和稳定是有害的，因为在人类和道德层面上，这是不可接受的。

And none of this is to discount the efforts of the many men, great husbands, fathers, brothers and sons, who have been with us in this fight.  
这一切都不是为了贬低许多人的努力，他们是伟大的丈夫、父亲、兄弟和儿子，他们在这场战斗中与我们在一起。

It is simply the reality of the unequal power relations, abuse of power, gender bias, violence and lack of justice that keep so many women in a subordinate, and therefore vulnerable, position internationally. 
正是这种不平等的权力关系、滥用权力、性别偏见、暴力和缺乏正义的现实使如此多的妇女处于从属地位，因而在国际上处于弱势地位。

Fearing abuse at the hands of a peacekeeper is not protection. 
害怕被维和人员虐待不是保护。

Living with the fear that your daughter might be raped by armed combatants is not safety. 
生活在担心你女儿可能被武装战斗人员强奸的恐惧中是不安全的。

Knowing that if your children are harmed, no one will be held accountable, is not a basis for peace and security. 
知道如果你的孩子受到伤害，没有人会被追究责任，这不是和平与安全的基础。

Denying half a population representation in peace negotiations or in government is not the route to long-term stability. 
在和平谈判或政府中拒绝一半的人口代表，并不是实现长期稳定的途径。

As long as we continue to put almost every other issue ahead of women’s rights and participation, we will remain stuck in a cycle of violence and conflict. We will have learned nothing. And our institutions will count for less than they should. 
只要我们继续把几乎所有其他问题都放在妇女权利和参与的前面，我们将继续陷入暴力和冲突的循环之中。我们将一无所获。我们的机构将比他们应有的要少。

From my experience, a growing number of men and women in uniform understand this. When we are at our best, doing what we are called to do, we all share the same goals, the same mandate: a safer, more stable world. We fight to defend our freedoms and rights and the freedoms and rights of others. 
根据我的经验，越来越多的穿着制服的男女都明白这一点。当我们处于最佳状态，做我们被要求做的事情时，我们都有相同的目标，同样的任务：一个更安全、更稳定的世界。我们为捍卫自己的自由和权利以及他人的自由和权利而斗争。

I recently met a male peacekeeper, who had just returned from deployment as a gender adviser in the Central African Republic. And he told me that when he started his career of service in Afghanistan, he considered women’s rights to be a “soft” issue and not what war was fought for. But his experiences had made him understand that that it is exactly what should be fought for, and exactly what stabilizes a country. 
我最近遇到了一名男性维和人员，他刚从中非共和国的一名性别顾问的职位上回来。他告诉我，当他开始在阿富汗服役时，他认为妇女的权利是一个“软”问题，而不是战争的目的。但他的经历让他明白，这正是一个国家应该为之奋斗的目标，也是一个国家稳定的目标。

His ability to contribute to this goal became a source of pride for him. He had made that jump in his thinking. And while he had been doing a great service to his country already, he had now added that understanding and that sense of partnership with the women he served.  
他为这个目标做出贡献的能力成为他引以为豪的源泉。他在思想上跳跃了一下。虽然他已经为自己的国家做出了巨大的贡献，但他现在又增加了这种理解和与他所服务的妇女的伙伴关系。

There is progress. The number of cases of alleged sexual exploitation and abuse are down, although even a single case is unacceptable. The number(s) of women peacekeepers is on the rise, with African nations in particular leading the way on this. There are more gender advisers on UN missions, although still not enough. And improving the training on the protection of civilians is starting to come into effect. 
有进展。被指控的性剥削和性虐待案件数量有所下降，尽管一个案件都是不可接受的。妇女维和人员的数量正在增加，特别是非洲国家在这方面的领导作用。在联合国特派团中有更多的性别顾问，尽管还不够。加强保护平民的培训，已经开始生效。

But there is still a long way to go to demonstrate that anyone who commits violations will not be tolerated and will be investigated and prosecuted without exception. 
但是，要证明任何违反规定的人都是不可容忍的，而且将无一例外地受到调查和起诉，还有很长的路要走。

There is still much more to do to increase the number of women in the ranks of peacekeeping missions. And having met some formidable female peacekeepers this morning, I think that this change cannot come soon enough for the effectiveness and impact of peacekeeping missions.
在增加维和任务中的妇女人数方面还有很多工作要做。今天早上我遇到了一些强大的女性维和人员，我认为这种变化不会很快达到维和任务的有效性和影响。

And of course, we cannot call for more women to serve, without making it safe and viable for them to do so, including ensuring that they themselves are not vulnerable to sexual harassment or abuse.  
当然，我们不能要求更多的女性服务，除非让她们安全可行，包括确保她们自己不易受到性骚扰或性虐待。

New actions by your governments in all these areas can make a huge difference. But they, I believe, must be accompanied by commitments to ensure women’s representation in peace negotiations, to be consistent in the defense of women’s rights, in all places, and to address the deep-seated societal reasons for inequality and violence against women. 
你们政府在所有这些领域采取的新行动都会产生巨大的影响。但是，我认为，她们必须在承诺的同时，确保妇女在和平谈判中的代表地位，在所有地方维护妇女权利方面保持一致，并解决根深蒂固的社会不平等和暴力侵害妇女的原因。

And above all, we need to understand that women themselves are protectors, as mothers, and peacekeepers, and human rights defenders. 
最重要的是，我们需要了解，妇女本身就是保护者，作为母亲、维和人员和人权捍卫者。

Women are already contributing to peace in theatres of war across the world without recognition or glory, because it comes naturally to them. It’s important to them.  
妇女们已经在全世界的战争舞台上为和平做出了贡献，但却没有得到认可或荣耀，因为这是她们的天性。这对他们很重要。

Think how much more we could achieve with women’s equal participation in all aspects of society: not at the expense of men, but alongside men. Because we are all partners in this life.  
想想看，如果女性平等参与社会的各个方面，我们能取得多大的成就：不是以牺牲男性为代价，而是与男性并肩作战。因为我们都是今生的伴侣。

We humans are capable of horrors, and unspeakable cruelty. But we are also capable of building civilizations, improving laws, demanding justice. We are willing to fight for people we’ve never met and for their families 
我们人类有能力制造恐怖和不可言喻的残忍。但我们也有能力建设文明，完善法律，要求正义。我们愿意为我们从未见过的人和他们的家人而战

We fall. We fail. We lose our way, often when we are made to feel afraid. 
我们摔倒了。我们失败了。我们迷路了，常常在我们感到害怕的时候。

But in our moments of strength and clarity, we know that all people are in fact equal. We know that while we can and should be proud of who we are individually, we are a part of a global world. And we know that we are supposed to come together in defense of something greater than ourselves.   
但在我们拥有力量和清晰的时刻，我们知道所有人实际上都是平等的。我们知道，虽然我们可以而且应该为自己是谁而自豪，但我们是全球世界的一部分。我们知道，我们应该团结起来，捍卫比我们更伟大的东西。

Thank you very much. 
非常感谢你们。