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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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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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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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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 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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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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Believe in your passions and act on them.
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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
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Stronger women build stronger nations.
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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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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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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 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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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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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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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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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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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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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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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
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