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.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

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

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

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

Stronger women build stronger nations.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.