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Mukhtar Mai, Education and Women’s Rights Activist

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Portrait of Mukhtar Mai

Portrait of world-renown education and women's rights activist, Mukhtra Mai. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Portrait of world-renown education and women’s rights activist, Mukhtar Mai.  

(WNN) UNITED NATIONS: Portrait of Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who became a world-renown education and women’s rights activist after she was gang raped as clan vengeance in her native village for crimes allegedly committed by her brother.

02 May 2006
United Nations, New York
Image: Eskinder Debebe/UN photo
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