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Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.
Zainab Salbi
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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
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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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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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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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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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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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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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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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Since war often enters homes through the kitchen door, we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
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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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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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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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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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