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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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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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Passionately enjoy life!
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Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
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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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Women are not just victims they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
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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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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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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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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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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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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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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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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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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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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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It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.
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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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Stronger women build stronger nations.
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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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