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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.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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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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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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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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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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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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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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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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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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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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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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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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From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Believe in your passions and act on them.
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It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
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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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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.
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