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

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

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

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.

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.

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.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.