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

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

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

I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?