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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.