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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.
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War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
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I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.
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Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.
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Stronger women build stronger nations.
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Women are not just victims they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.
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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
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I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
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Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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