A Weekend of Extraordinary Women
Just a little bit more about International Women’s Day! This report from the website The Daily Beast had so much interesting information I had to link it for those of you who asked to learn more.
“A Senegalese activist recounts how two of her three daughters died after botched circumcision. A Chinese author describes her devastation when she discovered she was pregnant with a daughter instead of a son. And an Indian activist tells harrowing tales of rescuing young girls from sex slavery.
Those were some of the riveting stories shared on stage this weekend at The Daily Beast’s emotional and power-packed Women in the World summit, which brought together more than 300 activists and women leaders from all over the world to fight sex trafficking, child marriage, and rape as a weapon of war.”
You can read it all here.
March 16 2010 06:07 pm | Events and In the news