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Focus on the empowerment of girls at 2007 UN meeting on women's status.

Publication: One Country
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Focus on the empowerment of girls at 2007 UN meeting on women's status.(WOMEN)

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UNITED NATIONS--Last autumn, Anisa Fadaei started a discussion group on women's issues at her high school. Meeting every two weeks at lunch, about a dozen girls examined issues like domestic violence, unequal pay rates, and trafficking in girls.

The topics were unfamiliar to most of the participants--which is the point.

"Before we started, most of the others didn't have a clue about gender equality issues or violence against women," said Anisa, who is 17 and lives in the town of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. "We live in quite a nice area and so most of my friends didn't realize that such problems with inequality were going on around the world."

Though young, Anisa is committed to raising awareness about gender issues. She is involved in the youth caucus of the UK National Alliance of Women's Organizations, and she has been the featured speaker at several school wide assemblies on women's topics. She was recently profiled in a UNICEF newsletter that focuses on how young people can get involved with global issues.

Anisa was one of at least 12 girls and 36 women and...

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