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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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