I'll show you some of these individuals tonight. Millions of girls and women can not go to school or work, they can't drive, or they can't vote, simply because of their gender. Even more deplorable, one in three women worldwide will be physically abused in her life, most often at the hands of someone she knows. Tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people are forced to move from their homes because there is simply no more land or food or water to sustain their families and their communities. There are no more jobs for them, and no more room in the schools for their children.
Billions live in large, densely populated, and polluted cities.
Most of these challenges are caused by a disconnect between the rate of population growth and the ability of their community, country or frankly, the earth, to meet their needs. And as you've heard, the most rapid growth is occurring in developing countries - those which are least able to deal with the needs of ever increasing populations. I'm talking about countries such as India, Indonesia, Uganda, Angola, Cambodia and Yemen. These are national security and economic issues. But we in the State Department, and throughout our country, also can't ignore the fact that all six billion of us live in one common world.