Zainab Salbi
Zainab Salbi
Zainab Salbiis an author, women's rights activist, humanitarian, social entrepreneur, and media commentator who is the founder and former CEOof Washington-based Women for Women International...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionActivist
CountryIraq
chiefs
Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.
negotiation has-beens participants
Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.
husband believe progress
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.
skills faces violence
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
perspective world income
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.
development faces violence
Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
long world violence
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
believe i-believe should
I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.
war believe impact
I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.
country war order
Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
religious law impact
Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
war way intense
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.
losing-a-loved-one people historical
I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
believe numbers issues
If half the society isn't engaged on any number of sectors, success and potential will be limited. In that sense, I do definitely believe there is a growing movement and moment for women's issues.