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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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Zainab Salbi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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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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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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It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.
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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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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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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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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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