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.
Zainab SalbiI have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
Zainab SalbiWomen are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
Zainab SalbiWomen 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.
Zainab Salbi