Ending Child Marriage
Ending child marriage is not only a moral imperative—it is a strategic imperative that will further critical U.S. foreign policy interests in...
Speaker: Mara Hvistendahl, Correspondent, Science Magazine
Presiders: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Fellow and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Joshua Kurlantzick, Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
February 6, 2012
This session was a meeting of the Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series.
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Ending child marriage is not only a moral imperative—it is a strategic imperative that will further critical U.S. foreign policy interests in...
The pervasive practice of child marriage is stirring concern among U.S. foreign policymakers because it threatens to undermine U.S. interests...
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon examines women's rights in Afghanistan.