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One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
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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 by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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