Why Women Are a Foreign Policy Issue - By Melanne Verveer
"On a trip to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009, not long after my appointment as the U.S. State Department's ambassador at large for global women's issues, I stopped for dinner with a group of Afghan women activists in Kabul. One woman opened our conversation with a plea: "Please don't see us as victims, but look to us as the leaders we are.""
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"...promoting the status of women is not just a moral imperative but a strategic one; it's essential to economic prosperity and to global peace and security."
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