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

I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

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

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

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