Recently a forum on women’s education in Pakistan took place at Emory University.
The keynote speaker was Mukhtar BiBi, a rape survivor, who’s now an activist in Pakistan for women’s rights and education.
According to the Global Campaign for Education, “over 5.1 million primary school-aged children are out of school in Pakistan – the third highest number of out-of-school children in the world ─ and [63 percent] of them are girls.”
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