Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

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

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

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.

Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.

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

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.