Liswood: "First and foremost it takes great courage to want to and to agree to lead a country. It's just not something that every person is willing and capable of doing, (It) doesn't necessarily mean that you turn out to be a great leader, it just means that you have the courage to stand up in front of a crowd and have your ideas attacked and your person attacked."

Many of the women have displayed immense courage of different types - ranging from suffering house arrest and assassination attempts, to dealing with major illness and travelling to some of the most dangerous places in the world to highlight human rights issues.