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

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

Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.

When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

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

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.