Podcast transcript- To know that we are not alone JG: Hello and welcome to an openDemocracy podcast. 124 women from 35 countries gathered in Antigua last week to tell the Nobel Women's Initiative about their work and to discuss re-defining democracy. The Laureates, Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum listened. I'm Jane Gabriel, and I talked to the conference participants as they came and went between sessions. Nathalia Green helped write the new Ecuadorian constitution. NG: Well, I came to the conference invited by the women's Nobel Initiative to talk about my experience with the Ecuadorian constitution process. During 2007-2008 we wrote a new constitution and this constitution is based on rights. Especially we worked on rights of more vulnerable groups like women, indigenous groups, and nature. So our sort of like incidents there, and our infiltration in the constitutional process was to guarantee that those rights were in that constitution. And we ended up with an amazing constitution. Something that we definitely want to share is our experience in Ecuador, it's something that should be known and should be celebrated in the whole world. And should be replicated in some parts of the world as well. I definitely learned a lot of things in this conference, it's amazing.... JG: like what? NG: Well, first of all sharing this space with such wonderful and powerful women, that's one of the best things that can happen to someone who's fighting....to know that we are not alone, that