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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
Zainab Salbi
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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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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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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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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
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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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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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Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.
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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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Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
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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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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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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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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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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Every woman must own her story otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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