Nujood is a Yemeni girl;ità ‚¬ „ s no coincidence that Yemen abounds both in child brides and in terrorists. Societies that repress women tend to be prone to violence.The US last month announced $150 million in military assistance for Yemen to fight extremists.In contrast,it costs just $50 to send a girl to public school for a year à ‚¬" and little girls like Nujood may prove more effective than missiles at defeating terrorists. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)