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Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi is an author and social entrepreneur recognized for her work in women's rights and humanitarian efforts. Born on September 24, 1969, she has dedicated her career to advocating for the empowerment of women and girls globally.

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“The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.”

World Needs Inspiration Storytelling

Author:Zainab Salbi

“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.”

Values Speak Loss Rights Dialogue Womens Rights Inheritance Speaks Out

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.”

World Stories Silence Break

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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.”

Ifs Willing Discrimination

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“Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.”

Firsts Lines Conflict Collaboration Divides Alliances

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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.”

Way Mean Faces Culture Challenges Opinion Extremes Simplify Marginalized

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“I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.”

America Choices Grew Grew Up Injustice Freedom Of Choice

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“Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.”

Stories Silence

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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.”

Want Groups Twenties Sixty Holding On

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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?”

People Knows War School Fall Dancing Falling In Love Live Life Hospitals Do You Know Factories Divorced

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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.”

People Violence Listening Losing Solutions Crisis Victim Historical Loved Ones Acts Of Violence Losing A Loved One

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“Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.”

Giving Situation Middle Solutions Give And Take Extremity

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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.”

Country Growing Up Growing Everyday Injustice Saddam

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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.”

Way Believe Today Speak Violence Speaks Out Violence Against Women Stop Violence Against Women

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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.”

Needs Order Rights Movement Womens Rights

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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.”

Stills Violence Injustice Target Outrage Wartime

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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.”

World Long Has Beens Seems Violence Numb Violence Against Women Stop Violence Against Women

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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.”

Faces Violence Development Injustice Inequality Violence Against Women Excluded Stop Violence Against Women

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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.”

World Economic Produce Perspective Percent Property Income Treated Treated Unfairly

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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.”

Faces Violence Skills Gender Oppression Joblessness Lack Of Education

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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.”

Believe Has Beens I Believe Progress Husband Moved Gender Credit Cards Inequality Addresses Owners Credit Card Signatures Gender Inequality

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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.”

Decision Levels Easier Conflict Planning Posts Decision Making Peace Talks

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“Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.”

Has Beens Negotiation Participants

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“Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.”

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“Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.”

Levels Percent Peace Talks

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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.”

Should Believe I Believe Engaging

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“Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.”

Example Charisma

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“I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.”

Needs Believe War I Believe Impact Discussion Urgent Restructure

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“Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.”

Needs War Country Order Community Taught Perspective Survivor

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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.”

Needs War Home School Faces Doors Kitchen Closing Shortage

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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.”

Men Decision Healthy Men And Women Tables Decision Making Inclusion

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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.”

Different Decision Views Healthy Diversity Backgrounds Decision Making Stem Unified Different Experiences Different Backgrounds

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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.”

Long War Ends Moving Term Healing Issues Conflict Trauma Decades Moving Forward Long Term Survived Reminders Haunting Health Issues Armed Conflict

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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.”

Should Made Age Young Mother Strong Issues Awareness Importance Independent Raised Young Age Plight

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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.”

Ifs Believe Moments Numbers Half Issues Growing Movement Engaged

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“Living in war is a co- existence with death.”

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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.”

Way War Reason Shows Intense Microcosm

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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.”

World War Kids School Process Space Missing Messages Sick Caring Critical Absence Revival Injured Continuation Negotiating

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.”

Community Levels Leader Victim Survivor Stability

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“Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.”

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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.”

World Needs Stills Political Order Decision Half Issues Higher Findings Solutions Tables Population Relate Decision Making Stability Representation

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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.”

Wanted Law Religious Groups Economic Resources Trade Impact Conservative Access Spheres Secular Incentives Mobility Family Law

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“Women in the Arab world have a rich history in their active participation in political change from the Algeria revolution against the French occupation to the most recent revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya among other countries. The question is not their participation. Their question is the incorporation of women's voices fully in the new definitions of the countries where change has happened.”

“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.”

Firsts War Ends Home Together Mother Pieces Doors Fields Picks Daughter Stones Destroyed Mother And Daughter Haul

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“Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.”

World Way Inspirational Happens Change Risk Safe Changing The World Taking Risks Playing It Safe

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“Passionately enjoy life!”

Life Enjoy Enjoy Life

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“Believe in your passions and act on them.”

Believe Passion Believe In You

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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.”

World Years Inspiration Motivation Military Spending Budgets Military Spending

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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.”

People War Inspiration Motivation Fighting Groups Tables Killing Burning Midst Negotiating Pillaging

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“The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.”

Humans War Eye Lines Space Enemy Fronts Target Unseen Missiles Human Eyes

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Born: September 24, 1969
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