英国FCO特使乔安娜·罗珀 | 2021年性别平等论坛致辞

Hello, my name is Joanna Roper and I'm the special envoy for gender equality based in London. And I've been in this role since April 2017. It's the first time that we've had a special envoy for gender equality.

大家好，我叫乔安娜·罗珀，是伦敦性别平等特使。我从2017年4月开始担任这一职务，当时也是我们首次设立性别平等特使。

And my role is several fold really, it's to make sure that we're talking across government, it's about projecting gender equality through our foreign and security policy as much as our development policy, but we work very closely with other parts of the UK government.

我的职责涉及好几个方面，确保我们与整个政府进行讨论，通过我们的外交和安全政策以及我们的发展政策来实现两性平等，而且我们与英国政府的其他部门合作非常密切。

So I'm here in India as part of the UK delegation for the ASEAN-China dialogue taking place this week. And I'm really looking forward to the panel that I'll be talking to later today on women's leadership within this century.

因此，我作为英国代表团的一员来到印度，参加本周举行的中国—东盟对话。我真的对今天接下来要召开的关于本世纪妇女领导能力的小组会议充满期待。

But I also have a surrounding programme. I'm meeting the minister for women and children, minister Alina. I'm also engaging with young leaders, achieving scholars, business leaders to understand the challenges here in India and how the UK and India can work together.

但我也有一个周边计划。我将会见妇女和儿童事务部长阿莉娜部长。我还将与年轻的领导人、有成就的学者以及商业领袖会面，以了解印度面临的挑战以及英国和印度如何开展合作。

And of course one of the big priorities for India is also education with a big campaign taking place to educate one's daughter, and that sits really closely with the sorts of things that the UK is trying to achieve globally as well.

当然，印度的重要优先事项之一就是教育，一场让女生接受教育的大运动正在开展，这与英国在全球范围内努力实现的各种目标密切相关。

The UK is one of a growing number of countries that has an ambassador for women and girls or for gender equality, and I'm really proud that the UK is part of this growing number of countries, that's really putting a premium.

英国是拥有女性大使或性别平等大使越来越多的国家之一，我真的很自豪英国是这众多国家中的一员，这真的值得重视。

But making sure that gender equality is at the heart of our foreign policy, bringing together diplomacy, defense, development and also our domestic work, because there's plenty that takes place domestically that the UK is leading on that we can share and learn from other partners too.

两性平等作为我们外交政策的核心，应将其同外交、国防、发展和国内工作结合起来，因为在很多方面，英国都做到了领先地位，我们也可以与其他伙伴分享，相互借鉴。

You can argue that the rights of women have come a very, very long way in recent years, and that's true. We see phenomenal women in positions of leadership, in the media, in government, in politics, in business, in law, lots and lots of other sectors, but we know that there are still very many challenges out there.

可以肯定的是，近年来我们在妇女的权利方面的确取得了长足的进步。我们在领导层、媒体、政府、政治、商业、法律以及许多其他领域看到了很多了不起的女性，但我们知道，现在也仍然存在诸多挑战。

The rights of women in some parts of the world to access education, for example, over 130 million girls are not able to access a quality education. And we don't think that's right and that's why the UK is putting such a store, such a premium on girls' education.

例如，在世界某些地区，有超过1.3亿女童无法接受优质教育。我们认为这是不公平的现象，这也就是为什么英国会如此重视对女孩的教育。

We've also worked very closely with partners on particularly for 2020 the women peace and security agenda. This year is the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which first 20 years ago, first acknowledged the role of women and the impacts of conflict on women and girls, but also the role that women can play in conflict resolution and peacekeeping operations.

特别是在2020年妇女和平与安全议程方面，我们还与合作伙伴密切合作。今年是联合国安理会第1325号决议通过20周年，20年前该决议首次明确妇女的作用以及冲突对妇女和女童的影响，同时也肯定了妇女在解决冲突和维和行动中发挥的作用。

I'm also proud that the UK is leading the way on preventing sexual violence in conflict. An initiative that was launched in 2012 with then foreign for secretary lord William Hague and special envoy Angelina Jolie.

我还引以为傲的是，英国在预防冲突中的性暴力方面也处于领先地位。早在2012年英国外交大臣威廉·黑格勋爵和特使安吉丽娜·朱莉就发起了一项倡议。

It's still a priority for the UK, looking at how we can tackle the conflict related sexual violence, how we can bring survivors to have access to justice and bring perpetrators to account, and how we tackle the issues around stigma and ostracism as survivors return to their community.

研究我们如何才能解决与冲突有关的性暴力问题，我们如何才能让幸存者获得司法救助并将肇事者绳之以法，以及我们如何才能在幸存者返回社区时解决有关污名和排斥的问题，仍然是英国需要优先考虑的事项。

Note:

envoy

someone who is sent as a representative from one government or organization to another 使者；使节；代表

a United Nations special envoy

联合国特使

panel

a small group of people chosen to give advice, make a decision, or publicly discuss their opinions as entertainment（选定的）专家小组

The competition will be judged by a panel of experts.

这次竞赛将由一个专家小组来评判。

put/ place a premium on

to value (something) highly 高度重视

Publishers put/ place a premium on accuracy.

出版商非常重视准确性。