When you have conflict and food insecurity, it's always the women and children who suffer the most. All studies show that. More important than a study, anecdotal evidence from what we see on the ground is a clear indication of that. This is when we come in, when we set up our systems, working with, for example, your government to make certain we can reach equally everybody who's impaired. Regardless of their sex, regardless of their politics, regardless of anything, we make certain that we can reach everybody who's in need. In fact, we try to really promote a lot of women's programs, and we do that in a lot of different ways that we don't have time to get into today. When we do school meal programs, we do those, for example, not just for boys. We do them for little girls and little boys. For example, in Afghanistan, we are feeding millions of little boys and little girls in schools now even though the Taliban stops any girls in sixth grade and above from going to school. We are pushing and negotiating, and it's like, look, we're going to reach the boys and the girls, not just one half. We try to use food as a way of achieving human rights and opportunities for a lot of people. Afghanistan is in a very delicate situation as we speak, as you can only imagine. We want to make certain we empower women and give women opportunities. It's not just there; it's from Yemen to as many other places as you can imagine.
On April 4th, 2022. See this statement in context.