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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
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The Atlantic: How My Mother Beat the Public School System
By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Long before school choice, here’s how one woman in a downtrodden district managed to get a good education for her child. My mother was ahead of her time. Years before school choice become the hot-throttled issue it is now, back in the days of Dallas, Falcon Crest, and ketchup as a ...
Read MoreThe Daily Beast: Sahar Gul Torture Case Shows Limited Rights, Perilous Lives of Afghan Wome
The media have flocked to report the shocking torture of Sahar Gul for refusing to become a prostitute, but her case is just one example of widespread violence against women in Afghanistan, which mostly goes unreported and unpunished.by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Sahar Gul wants justice. Images of the 15-year-old girl tortured for months ...
Read MoreCNN.com: Angelina Jolie’s film bears witness to rape in war
Editor’s note: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a fellow and deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council of Foreign Relations. She writes extensively about women entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Bosnia and Rwanda. She wrote “The Dressmaker of Khair Khana,” a book that tells the story of an ...
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