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

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

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

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

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

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

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