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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: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.
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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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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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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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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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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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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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My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the backlines, where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.
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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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Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.
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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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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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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.
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