Malala, Others on Front Lines in Fight for Women
Despite the fact that Malala Yousafzai, the fourteen-year-old Pakistani women's rights activist, survived an assassination attempt by the...
Speakers: Mary Ellen Stanton, USAID
Steven V. Brock, USAID Afghanistan
Presider: Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations
June 30, 2011
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