Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

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

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.

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.

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

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.