Andeisha Farid, executive director of the, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO), and Roshaneh Zafar, founder and managing director of the Kashf Foundation, the first microfinance organization in Pakistan, on being honored by Vital Voices Global Partnership, a Washington, DC-based organization that works to empower women around the world.
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I have been really following the issue of gender discrimination and lethal gender discrimination through Nicholas Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's book Half the Sky as well as Kristof's Facebook minifeeds. The message seems to always be Women Enpowering Women, either women from the west being encouraged to travel and particpate in making a difference to women in many extremely hostile areas of the world. Does the guest think that encouraging men to participate in this issue (which Kristoff and his wife WuDunn make the case as being the greatest humanitarian crisis facing the world right now)would be more effective?
these women are inspiring, this is great. thank you.
Vital Voices was one of the projects Hillary Clinton helped to create (with Madeleine Albright) when she was First Lady. This was one of the many things she did that your show (and all the rest of the media) left out in your coverage of her during the 2008 campaign.
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