USD Magazine Summer 2013

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2011 NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE LEYMAH GBOWEE is a Liberian peace activist, women’s rights advocate and social worker who spoke on cam- pus at the Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series in March 2013. She delivered the following eloquent message at USD’s International Women’s Day Breakfast: “To end violence against women, we need to make the message simple and clear, leave out all the jargon. It’s not sta- tistics and it’s not numbers — these are individuals. There are families in mourning. Every time there is talk of sexual and gender-based violence, they are not numbers or statistics. They’re our daughters and sisters.”

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