The Vagina Monologues really shows what happens with women and violence and how it occurs in all communities, not just in the U.S. but world wide.

Dr. Hicks had a mission and her mission was to make sure all victims of sexual violence had the best medical care possible.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

No matter where I go, any form of violence against women is serious,

Violence against women is a universal problem. Many governments have taken serious steps to deal with it. Pakistan hasn't.

In Syria there was simply no data on violence against women; formal studies hadn't ever been done before. The issue of violence against women was kept silent here for many years. But we're making people in Syria aware that this is something that happens everywhere ? in Europe, in Asia, in the United States ? and this is opening up discussion.