Global Girls' Education: Breaking Down Barriers
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Indian school girls dressed in traditional Punjabi outfits hold earthen lamps during an annual prize distribution fuction in Amritsar, in India's northwestern state of Punjab.
Photo by Narinder Nanu /AFP/Getty Images
An America Abroad documentary about the global controversy over educating GIRLS. The teenage Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... but a Pakistani private schools network said this week she is "against the Constitution and Islamic ideology of Pakistan." Religion, social customs and economic pressures influence the education of girls in Africa, India and the mideast.
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