Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

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.

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.

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

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.