The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

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

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.