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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.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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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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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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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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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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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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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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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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War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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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 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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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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Passionately enjoy life!
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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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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
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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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