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Living in war is a co- existence with death.
Zainab Salbi
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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.
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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 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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Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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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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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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Believe in your passions and act on them.
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Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
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