It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

Women 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.

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

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

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.

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