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Clinton Announces Global Initiative to Educate Girls

Clinton Announces Global Initiative to Educate Girls

by The Daily Eye Team October 10 2014, 2:26 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 38 secs

Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton has announced a $600 million effort to help girls around the world enroll in secondary schools. She unveiled the plan Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in New York. She said that when girls have equal access to quality education in primary and secondary schools, they help break the cycle of poverty and spur economic growth. The global initiative has 30 partners and will be led by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who originated the idea. The U.S., British and Nepalese governments will work with private sector organizations to reach 14 million disadvantaged girls, ages 11 to 16, over the next five years. Most of them are in sub-Saharan Africa and southwestern Asia.

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Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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