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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
Zainab Salbi
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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
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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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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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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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
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Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that relates from peace to food, to health, to basic stability in the world. We cannot continue to marginalize half of the population in the world in finding sustainable solutions that are good for all.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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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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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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Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
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While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
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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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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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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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