Women of Courage Ceremony

Col Quraishi in Washington DC

First lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton present the 2010 International Women of Courage Award to Colonel Shafiqa Quraishi of Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Only good can come from empowering women

By Kathleen Parker
Sunday, March 14, 2010; A19
If your impression of an Afghan woman is of a shapeless, frightened form engulfed in yards of heat-trapping fabric, you haven’t met Shafiqa Quraishi.

Read the entire article here in the Washington Post

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