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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.
Zainab Salbi
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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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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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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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I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
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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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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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Women are not just victims they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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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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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.
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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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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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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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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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Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.
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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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Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.
Zainab Salbi
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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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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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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